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Seventy one: Cost of touch

Author: Lynda writes
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-20 22:17:34

Logan's pov

That night, I didn’t sleep.

Fiona did, barely curled beside me despite everything. Her breathing was shallow, her shoulders tense even in sleep, like her magic knew before she did that I wasn’t safe to touch.

I watched her and counted the rise and fall of her chest. The small, unconscious movements—her fingers twitching toward mine, her brow furrowing like she was dreaming of something just out of reach.

I didn’t know if it was love anymore.

Or habit or hope but it wrecked me, the way she stayed.

Even when I didn’t deserve it.

Even when I wasn’t sure what would wake up in my body the next time I closed my eyes.

At some point, I slipped from the bed and stepped barefoot onto the cold stone. I didn’t need light—my eyes had changed. I could see in the dark now, but not the way wolves do. This was Stranger.

The shadows spoke when I walked past them.

I don’t mean metaphorically. I mean they moved their mouths.

Whispers in a language I didn’t know. Not in the waking world. But
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