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baby. I s

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milk and vanilla.

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om her forehead. She looked beautiful, perfec

leaned closer, inhaling deeply

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answer, a pain sho

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lf, who had been strangely silent all day, sud

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said. "You nee

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blue. Her eyes were open, stari

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aid softly. "Cause of death: Acute sil

ured my Alpha aura into her.

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bility: 100%

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hold the baby in. I had denied her medic

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enly warped. The pressure

energy tore open in the cen

target!" a vo

*out of the rift*. They moved with a s

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d. He didn't hold a gun. He held

the staff o

me backward. I slammed into the

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exactly

me. He looked at t

he whispered. H

soldiers. "Take h

truggling against the magic. "She

turned

thousand times. It wasn't just Alph

my belly, my face press

rincess of the Sterling Dynasty. And you, Damien Blackwo

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I saw something. H

ction of a

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staff threw a vial onto the floor. Pu

were gone. *The portal had

stain remained