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Chapter 70. Cerberus dreams and fears

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* Cerberus *

The wind howled like a beast in pain.

Snow battered my shoulders as I pressed deeper into the mountain pass, my body screaming with every step. Ice cracked beneath my boots. My lungs burned, not just from the cold, but from the toll this cursed journey had taken. The magic here was raw, untamed, each step farther from the packlands, each heartbeat without my wolf, frayed the line between man and madness.

One of the feral shadowbeasts that stalked the Hollow. It had lunged at me from a fissure in the mountain hours ago, fast, silent, driven by the same ancient rage that haunted this place. I'd killed it, but not cleanly. My magic pulsed erratically, the witchmark beneath my collarbone burning hotter each day. My wolf remained silent. Dormant.

And yet it wasn't the silence of my wolf that worried me most. It was hers.

Princess Zeina.

The tether between us, a golden pulse that used to echo gently at the back of my mind, had dimmed.

I reached inward, eyes closing against the
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