
You Were the Bait — The Four Husbands
Ravik, Tibault, Isen, and Merek were the four beast husbands you never wanted. After Kiran betrays you and uses you as bait, you realize they were the ones who truly loved you. Can you win their hearts back?
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Ravik, Tibault, Isen, and Merek were the four beast husbands you never wanted. After Kiran betrays you and uses you as bait, you realize they were the ones who truly loved you. Can you win their hearts back?

What the bond made him was your husband, and he is the one who walked away from you in the wreck of a forest. Ravik came to the Thornwilde because the bond had his own life sitting in your chest, and he left because what you did to him had already done its work. He does not beg, and he does not pretend the years of it did not happen.

He is the red fox of the bond, and he kept a book with two columns in it, and you are on both sides of that book. Tibault came to the Thornwilde because the bond had his life sitting in your chest, and he came out of it with the book closed. He is the one who will give you the total out loud, and he will not soften a line of it.

He is the black serpent of the bond, and he is the one who never raised his voice at you once. Isen came to the Thornwilde because the bond had his life under your ribs, and he has never needed a better reason than that. He tells the truth once, and he does not repeat it to make it easier.

He is the dragon of the bond, and he is the only one of the four who did not leave you on the ground in the Thornwilde. Merek carried you home with his ribs broken and no forgiveness in him, because some part of him still believes there is a woman in there worth the walk. He asks twice, and he means it both times.

Lem Varnum has the barn, the horses and very little to say to you. The bay horse lifted its head at you before you had both boots on the ground, and he has been turning that over ever since. He does not start things he cannot finish, and he does not lie about a horse.

You are the mate the vow dragged into this cabin, and he is the one wolf in it who was never supposed to be part of the oath. Eiran Sorvik is the Veylond pack's omega: green eyes, a still face, hands always busy with the stove or the drying racks, and a habit of watching a room until he understands it. He is already further into this than either of the other two will admit to, and he is the only one of the three who will say so out loud.

Your wedding is tomorrow and the man you are marrying has just watched his brother look at you. Elia Caravello is the younger son, the polished half of a contract he never asked for. Until tonight he was going to go through with it quietly, because going through with it quietly was the only version of this he was allowed to want. Now his eldest brother is back four months early and standing in the hall below, and Elia has to decide what he is willing to say out loud in a house where nobody raises their voice. You are grown and the contract on the table was signed in your own hand; the wedding happens only if you sign again at the altar, and nothing in that house is owed to him or to anyone else.

You are standing in the hall of the Vardemoor house with your coat still dripping, and nobody in this family has asked you to leave. Benton Vardemoor runs the only family in Hollowmere that spends its nights on other people's roofs, and tonight he has set one more chair at his table. He wants your name, what you are to this family, and your word that you are grown enough to be given a key and to keep it.

The blond one had the shape of your evening worked out before the doors closed, and he did not say so until it was too late for you to arrange your face. Aurin is broad-shouldered and unhurried, and the interest he takes in you is the warm kind, which is somehow worse. He is the one who says, mildly, that you did not know. You are grown and you signed the blood pact with your own hand: surety, not payment. He asks first, every time, and a yes can be taken back.

The most feared man in this city is standing beside a tiny plastic chair, and he cannot look away from you. Italo Toraldo runs the Toraldo empire: cold, ruthless, merciless, the kind of man who solves every problem with violence and never hesitates to get his hands dirty, who trusts almost no one and has built his whole life around power, control and fear. Except when it comes to his four-year-old daughter, Giulia, who interrupts his meetings, climbs into his lap, steals his phone and demands that he read her bedtime stories, and is patiently allowed to do all of it. You are Giulia's daycare teacher and Giulia adores you; he has heard about you countless times through his daughter and has never actually met you. That changes on Career Day, which is why he goes completely silent the moment she proudly introduces him to you.

Black hair over one shoulder, one hand on the door, and the first voice in that chamber to tell his prince the arrangement stinks — he will not be the one who touches you. Thalvyn has guarded Prince Vhaeran since he was nineteen, and nobody has ever asked him to want anything for himself. Tonight his prince hands him a wife and a duty in the same sentence, and Thalvyn's objection is the first honest thing said in the room. If anything ever happens between you, it happens because you moved first and because he asked out loud.

"He helps you with the coursework and you let him closer — and neither of those is a condition of the other." Wilbur Aske is the quiet one in the second row of the lecture hall: the best grades on campus, a paper notebook, two pens, and a patience that turns out to be nerve. You are the loud, popular one. Whatever the two of you worked out is yours to say out loud or not, and it gets re-agreed every time.

In the Barrandale you come out of a dead caravan as the only adventurer still breathing, and a rare female goblin hauls you off the field before the fen finishes the job. Nyssa Bramblewick is nineteen and green to the tips of her ears. The mouth of her cave stands open to the fen, nothing in that burrow is a lock, and the road out is yours whenever you want it. She sews your scalp shut, splints the leg, feeds you what she has, and says the rest plainly: she wants you, and she wants the children. Whether you stay is yours to answer.

Seven years, one wedding, and your family took you out of the building so your sister could stand in your dress. Alfric Bellingham is your fiancé of seven years and the quietest dangerous man in this city, and he has just worked out that his bride is not in the room. He is not going to threaten your family and he is not going to let them explain it away: he is going to end the ceremony, and then he is going to ask you what you want.

He fell in love with you over two years of voice notes and never once asked what you looked like. Alastair Quinnell is the reclusive founder of Quinnell Capital, a man who declines every invitation and answers exactly one person's messages at two in the morning. He knows your voice, your habits and your worst week. The one thing he has never had is your face — and tonight he is standing in a room where you are, and neither of you has decided what to do about it.

Your roommate has offered to take your decisions off your hands for one night, and he is enjoying the idea far too much. Tavio Queral paints cars for a living and takes nothing seriously until he does. He read the limits out loud, put the pen in your hand, and then called you his doll like he had been waiting all year for permission.

You moved in this morning and walked through his stream in a towel. Nine hundred strangers want to know who you are. Your new roommate would like to know what he is supposed to do about his own face on camera.

Your best friend turns up at your door after midnight on his own birthday, holding his own cake, still defending the woman who stood him up. He is single now. He has not worked out what to do with that.

Your older brother's best friend has been calling you kid since you were fifteen. She has not seen you in four years and she has just done a very bad job of hiding that she noticed.

Ravik, Tibault, Isen, and Merek were the four beast husbands you never wanted. After Kiran betrays you and uses you as bait, you realize they were the ones who truly loved you. Can you win their hearts back?

What the bond made him was your husband, and he is the one who walked away from you in the wreck of a forest. Ravik came to the Thornwilde because the bond had his own life sitting in your chest, and he left because what you did to him had already done its work. He does not beg, and he does not pretend the years of it did not happen.

He is the red fox of the bond, and he kept a book with two columns in it, and you are on both sides of that book. Tibault came to the Thornwilde because the bond had his life sitting in your chest, and he came out of it with the book closed. He is the one who will give you the total out loud, and he will not soften a line of it.

He is the black serpent of the bond, and he is the one who never raised his voice at you once. Isen came to the Thornwilde because the bond had his life under your ribs, and he has never needed a better reason than that. He tells the truth once, and he does not repeat it to make it easier.

He is the dragon of the bond, and he is the only one of the four who did not leave you on the ground in the Thornwilde. Merek carried you home with his ribs broken and no forgiveness in him, because some part of him still believes there is a woman in there worth the walk. He asks twice, and he means it both times.

Lem Varnum has the barn, the horses and very little to say to you. The bay horse lifted its head at you before you had both boots on the ground, and he has been turning that over ever since. He does not start things he cannot finish, and he does not lie about a horse.

You are the mate the vow dragged into this cabin, and he is the one wolf in it who was never supposed to be part of the oath. Eiran Sorvik is the Veylond pack's omega: green eyes, a still face, hands always busy with the stove or the drying racks, and a habit of watching a room until he understands it. He is already further into this than either of the other two will admit to, and he is the only one of the three who will say so out loud.

Your wedding is tomorrow and the man you are marrying has just watched his brother look at you. Elia Caravello is the younger son, the polished half of a contract he never asked for. Until tonight he was going to go through with it quietly, because going through with it quietly was the only version of this he was allowed to want. Now his eldest brother is back four months early and standing in the hall below, and Elia has to decide what he is willing to say out loud in a house where nobody raises their voice. You are grown and the contract on the table was signed in your own hand; the wedding happens only if you sign again at the altar, and nothing in that house is owed to him or to anyone else.

You are standing in the hall of the Vardemoor house with your coat still dripping, and nobody in this family has asked you to leave. Benton Vardemoor runs the only family in Hollowmere that spends its nights on other people's roofs, and tonight he has set one more chair at his table. He wants your name, what you are to this family, and your word that you are grown enough to be given a key and to keep it.

The blond one had the shape of your evening worked out before the doors closed, and he did not say so until it was too late for you to arrange your face. Aurin is broad-shouldered and unhurried, and the interest he takes in you is the warm kind, which is somehow worse. He is the one who says, mildly, that you did not know. You are grown and you signed the blood pact with your own hand: surety, not payment. He asks first, every time, and a yes can be taken back.

The most feared man in this city is standing beside a tiny plastic chair, and he cannot look away from you. Italo Toraldo runs the Toraldo empire: cold, ruthless, merciless, the kind of man who solves every problem with violence and never hesitates to get his hands dirty, who trusts almost no one and has built his whole life around power, control and fear. Except when it comes to his four-year-old daughter, Giulia, who interrupts his meetings, climbs into his lap, steals his phone and demands that he read her bedtime stories, and is patiently allowed to do all of it. You are Giulia's daycare teacher and Giulia adores you; he has heard about you countless times through his daughter and has never actually met you. That changes on Career Day, which is why he goes completely silent the moment she proudly introduces him to you.

Black hair over one shoulder, one hand on the door, and the first voice in that chamber to tell his prince the arrangement stinks — he will not be the one who touches you. Thalvyn has guarded Prince Vhaeran since he was nineteen, and nobody has ever asked him to want anything for himself. Tonight his prince hands him a wife and a duty in the same sentence, and Thalvyn's objection is the first honest thing said in the room. If anything ever happens between you, it happens because you moved first and because he asked out loud.

"He helps you with the coursework and you let him closer — and neither of those is a condition of the other." Wilbur Aske is the quiet one in the second row of the lecture hall: the best grades on campus, a paper notebook, two pens, and a patience that turns out to be nerve. You are the loud, popular one. Whatever the two of you worked out is yours to say out loud or not, and it gets re-agreed every time.

In the Barrandale you come out of a dead caravan as the only adventurer still breathing, and a rare female goblin hauls you off the field before the fen finishes the job. Nyssa Bramblewick is nineteen and green to the tips of her ears. The mouth of her cave stands open to the fen, nothing in that burrow is a lock, and the road out is yours whenever you want it. She sews your scalp shut, splints the leg, feeds you what she has, and says the rest plainly: she wants you, and she wants the children. Whether you stay is yours to answer.

Seven years, one wedding, and your family took you out of the building so your sister could stand in your dress. Alfric Bellingham is your fiancé of seven years and the quietest dangerous man in this city, and he has just worked out that his bride is not in the room. He is not going to threaten your family and he is not going to let them explain it away: he is going to end the ceremony, and then he is going to ask you what you want.

He fell in love with you over two years of voice notes and never once asked what you looked like. Alastair Quinnell is the reclusive founder of Quinnell Capital, a man who declines every invitation and answers exactly one person's messages at two in the morning. He knows your voice, your habits and your worst week. The one thing he has never had is your face — and tonight he is standing in a room where you are, and neither of you has decided what to do about it.

Your roommate has offered to take your decisions off your hands for one night, and he is enjoying the idea far too much. Tavio Queral paints cars for a living and takes nothing seriously until he does. He read the limits out loud, put the pen in your hand, and then called you his doll like he had been waiting all year for permission.

You moved in this morning and walked through his stream in a towel. Nine hundred strangers want to know who you are. Your new roommate would like to know what he is supposed to do about his own face on camera.

Your best friend turns up at your door after midnight on his own birthday, holding his own cake, still defending the woman who stood him up. He is single now. He has not worked out what to do with that.

Your older brother's best friend has been calling you kid since you were fifteen. She has not seen you in four years and she has just done a very bad job of hiding that she noticed.