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Damien's POV

Everything lay too quiet as I stood at the edge of the clearing, my chest heaving, and my eyes fixed on the figure sprawled across the ground. It didn’t matter how many times I blinked, it was her.

Evangeline.

Her hair was spread like a dark halo across the dirt. Her arms, slack. Her dress torn at the shoulder. Her lips were parted slightly, and her skin had lost all warmth, color drained from it like it had been pulled away by invisible hands.

I dropped to my knees beside her.

“Eva,” I breathed, but my voice didn’t sound like mine. It was guttural. Strained. I touched her face carefully, brushing away a smear of blood at the corner of her mouth. Her pulse was weak, too weak.

Whoever had done this… they had run. They had known better. The air reeked of masking dust and the attacker had covered their scent with practiced precision. A coward’s trick.

My hands clenched against the edge of her waist as I lifted her into my arms. She felt impossibly light, as if her spirit
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