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healer's den wasn't eno

ickering outside the open window. The smell of herbs sage,

his time. No illusions. No ma

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her presence and the fact that she had saved Luc

alf-truths, and right now... she wasn't s

eign? Or was she something else now-something

interrupted by t

ca

his side peeked out from his unbuttoned shirt. His eyes amber an

let me die," h

look at him. "I

here was no joy in it.

ou," she replied soft

as

the wound but from being in

hat used to be filled with laughter. And still, when he looked at

to you, Sabar

d at him.

d like a slap.

han anyone gave you credit

es," she returned, then paused. "I don't need y

slightly. "That bon

d with tension. "It d

"It does. You

aping back. "You made your choice

ed past him. But her final word

ewrite the past. I

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ll cabin she had been given

estate she once imagined she'd shar

r palm on the floorboards. A soft shi

she let her sh

a sealed scroll-the same one Kaelen had sent

Lucas that she'd been warned of

d that they had onc

reacting to her pulse. She knew

len

bove her cottage

oser to know what scroll

how long she stared at it bef

moment. Her silhouette stoo

o remember who she

pale-eyed warlock, steppe

" the warl

s lips

ind her who sh