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Chapter 77: War in the Distance

Author: Sam K
last update publish date: 2026-01-16 04:52:58
Xavier’s POV

Pain was not unfamiliar to me.

I had lived with it most of my life, earned it in battlefields soaked in blood, in wars fought for territory, power, survival. Pain was a companion a Lycan King learned to tolerate, to command, to bend beneath his will.

This pain, though, was different.

It sat deep in my chest, heavy and suffocating, each breath scraping through lungs that still burned from torn flesh and shattered ribs. The room smelled of iron and old magic, of salves layered thick o
Sam K

I feel bad for Xavier ;(

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