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Chapter 113. A father’s love

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* Cerberus *

The forest did not welcome me back.

It recoiled like a living thing, leaves trembling, roots curling away from where my feet sank into its soil. As I stumbled away from the witches' glade, my veins echoing with the memory of their chants, my skin still stained by ash and blood, I knew the cost of my bargain would never leave me. It clung to my breath, my bones, the deepest marrow of me where my wolf used to live.

The bond that once tethered me to Zeina and the child like a chain of fire had gone still. The constant, aching pull on my chest, the raw, savage need to be near them, was now a whisper. Not gone, no. But dimmed. The mark on my chest still glowed faintly, but it no longer surged with power. It pulsed like a dying star, beautiful, distant, fading.

I was still alive.

But barely.

Every breath I drew felt foreign, like my lungs were filled with water instead of air. My muscles trembled under the weight of nothing. My wolf, my other self—was silent. Still. As if he ha
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