The fortnight is up. Finn didn’t go back.
The Gilt Court’s deadline has passed and Finn is still in the Hollow Palace, still bonded to the Unseelie lord who agreed to every term of a bargain designed to protect them both—and who knew, from the moment Finn walked through his gates, exactly what the bond between them was.
Now Finn knows too. He knows about the bond. He knows about his father. He knows about the gift he’s been carrying since birth, the truth-sensing that the Gilt Court trained him to ignore and that Aldric recognized before Finn understood what it was.
What Finn doesn’t know is how to forgive four weeks of silence from the man who held every piece of information that mattered.
The fracture between them is precise and deep. It is not about the bond—Finn chose the bond. It is about the sequence: what Aldric knew, when he knew it, and the careful architecture of withheld truth that kept Finn in the dark while the bond did its work.
While Finn and Aldric negotiate the distance between anger and trust, the world outside the palace is moving. The Gilt Court is building a legal case. A faction inside Aldric’s own court is questioning the heir’s bloodline. The border courts are watching. And in the deep library, a junior archivist named Lira is paying very specific attention to Finn’s research—the kind that suggests she has been waiting for someone to ask the right questions.
The pregnancy is real. The fae heir law is binding. The thirty days the Gilt Court has given him are already running.
Finn is going to use every one of them.
A Throne Built on Silence is Book 2 of The Bitter Crown, a dark fae MM mpreg romance trilogy featuring a fated bond under pressure, a court lord learning the difference between protection and control, an omega building his own power from the ground up, and a love story that has to survive the truth before it can survive the war.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
The Gilt Court’s deadline has passed and Finn is still in the Hollow Palace, still bonded to the Unseelie lord who agreed to every term of a bargain designed to protect them both—and who knew, from the moment Finn walked through his gates, exactly what the bond between them was.
Now Finn knows too. He knows about the bond. He knows about his father. He knows about the gift he’s been carrying since birth, the truth-sensing that the Gilt Court trained him to ignore and that Aldric recognized before Finn understood what it was.
What Finn doesn’t know is how to forgive four weeks of silence from the man who held every piece of information that mattered.
The fracture between them is precise and deep. It is not about the bond—Finn chose the bond. It is about the sequence: what Aldric knew, when he knew it, and the careful architecture of withheld truth that kept Finn in the dark while the bond did its work.
While Finn and Aldric negotiate the distance between anger and trust, the world outside the palace is moving. The Gilt Court is building a legal case. A faction inside Aldric’s own court is questioning the heir’s bloodline. The border courts are watching. And in the deep library, a junior archivist named Lira is paying very specific attention to Finn’s research—the kind that suggests she has been waiting for someone to ask the right questions.
The pregnancy is real. The fae heir law is binding. The thirty days the Gilt Court has given him are already running.
Finn is going to use every one of them.
A Throne Built on Silence is Book 2 of The Bitter Crown, a dark fae MM mpreg romance trilogy featuring a fated bond under pressure, a court lord learning the difference between protection and control, an omega building his own power from the ground up, and a love story that has to survive the truth before it can survive the war.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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