Voidbound Contract

The champion's fist splits Kael's lip, the crowd roars for blood, and the creature inside him screams to be summoned—but the Guild inspector hunting him just walked into the arena. Every fight buys him another day. Every win leaves a trace. The Voidling hatchling bonded to his bones was supposed to be extinct, wiped out three centuries ago under a kill-on-sight decree. Now it's feeding on his life force to grow, and Mira Vance—the Guild's most relentless hunter—is three fights away from putting a bullet in his skull. He can't let it out. He can't afford to lose. And the thing clawing at his ribs doesn't care which kills him first. When the reigning Pit king calls him out for a death match and Mira's eyes lock onto his face across the blood-soaked floor, Kael has one choice left: summon the monster and die on the Guild's executioner block, or stay human and bleed out in the dirt.