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Chapter 53 – What We Protect

Author: Bamdel
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Kieran hadn’t said a word since he saw the sigil.

Not when we rode out.

Not when we found Kael—wounded, alive, but unconscious and half-buried in the snow, the trees around him scorched like someone had tried to set the forest on fire.

Not even when I reached out to steady him and he flinched like I’d burned him, too.

So I said nothing.

Sometimes silence was the only way to keep from unraveling.

But later, after the healers took Kael and the others away, after the Council tried and failed to make sense of the summoning sigil that hadn’t been used in a century after Caspian started pacing and muttering about “impossible bloodlines” and “dead witches who weren’t so dead,” Kieran finally looked at me.

And said, “You need to be careful.”

Not we. Not us.

Just you.

Like he’d already drawn the line again.

And maybe I let him. For now.

But the line didn’t hold for long.

Three days later, the packs met.

It was supposed to be a show of strength. Unity. The Council called it a “reaffirmation gat
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