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verything- Lucian's words, rejection, and betrayal. My heart was broken and my soul felt torn from me. The t

think.

by inches. One guard cursed and stumbled back. The other reached f

ms. My feet were bare.

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es h

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, snarling, and pacing. But they d

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didn't

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forward-and the

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a

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rk cloak he draped over his sho

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es really

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ked on

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said, wincing as he put some

ou dead," he said. T

loodf

Lucian is

in disbelief.

s done." For you. For others. I

as ill

t f

, you do not belong

. "How do you

his voice now softer.

een terrified. I

trong, and sure-somethi

p as though I

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where

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alf-buried in stone and moss. With smoke spiralli

and put me down on a sof

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want you dea

rejection. The false accu

without in

shed, he no

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ains

u feel...

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a corner chest. He unr

e lost royal bloo

eyes. Thos

. Yes, the

wolf. The Moonblood lineage. The strongest wolves to

tar

lood," Kael said.

re in

ut I'm no

itter. "I'm no r

you survived a rejection and a death sentence in on

I don'

. "It's because your blood

eath

it b

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en-I s

veins. My fingers twitc

side instantly.

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bs, but deep inside

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hed. I coul

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gasping, so

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was war

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eaned

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ed to the door. "