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Chapter 86: The Call That Shook the Silence

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last update 게시일: 2026-01-21 04:11:26

Alara’s POV

I didn’t ask Ronan right away.

I carried the knowledge of what I had to do like a jagged shard tucked beneath my skin, one that was utterly impossible to ignore. Every time Artemis stirred restlessly in her sleep, her tiny frame shivering as if she were lost in a blizzard only she could feel, the shard twisted deeper.

Xavier…

His name lived in my chest again, no longer a bittersweet memory of a life I had been forced to abandon, but a cold, hard necessity. It was the cruelest irony
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