# The Warden's Stolen Heart

Author: Mara Cole
Site: ReadNovelHub
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Genre: Western-Fantasy-Magic

## World
You hunted him, and now his cursed heart beats inside your chest.

## Tropes
- Western Fantasy & Magic
- Urban War Hero & Secret Billionaire
- Western-Fantasy-Magic
- Urban-WarHero-Tycoon

## Chapter 1 teaser
### The Heart Under His Ribs

"You have three seconds to get off me before this whole block drops on our heads." Elias Vey shoved Nora Kane against the cracked brick wall, one hand locked around her wrist and the other braced beside her head. "You don't get to count," Nora snapped. "Then start running." The street bucked beneath them. A blue-white crack split the pavement. Power lines screamed overhead, spitting sparks into the smoke. Across the block, a six-story apartment building groaned as its glowing foundation grid tore itself apart. Windows burst one after another. Nora drove her knee into Elias's thigh. He caught it. Of course he did. "Still trying to arrest me?" His breath brushed her cheek, hot and sharp with blood. "Even while the district is collapsing?" "You're the reason it's collapsing." "No. I'm the reason it hasn't collapsed yet." He twisted her wrist until the silver warden seal on her glove lit up. Pain shot up her arm. Nora hissed. "Let go." "Drop the binding cuffs." "Not happening." "Then watch four hundred people die." Another section of the street folded inward. A bus tipped sideways, its wheels spinning above the broken road. People screamed behind the barricades. The sound punched through Nora's skull. Her comm bead crackled. "Warden Kane, report," Commander Vale barked. "Do not engage the outlaw. Repeat, do not engage. The council wants Vey alive. Let the grid consume the block if it must." Nora stared at Elias. He heard it too. His mouth pulled into a humorless smile. "There it is," he said. "Your order." "Shut up." "They just told you to leave everyone here." "I said shut up." "You going to obey?" Nora slammed her forehead into his. His grip loosened. She ripped her wrist free and drove the metal edge of her glove into his ribs. He staggered back, but he didn't fall. The 

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