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Chapter 80

Author: Dlaw
last update publish date: 2026-10-07 22:33:44

Olivia

The photograph was still in my hand when Grayson took it.

He did not look at the picture. He looked at the writing on the back, then at the empty road, then at me. The sun lit the cut on his palm. It had started to bleed again.

"Inside," he said.

"No."

"Olivia."

"My name is on the envelope. He sent it to me. I get a say in what happens next."

His jaw moved once. He stepped closer until the toes of his boots touched my bare feet. Heat came off him, far more than a man should give off stan
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    OliviaGrayson did not move.I watched him through my own eyes, unable to blink. My mouth was smiling. My chin had lifted a fraction. My hand rose from my side without any order from me and settled against his chest, over his heart, and the fingers spread with a confidence that was not mine."You grew," my mouth said. "You used to be shorter than me.""Mara." It came out of him broken in the middle."Look at you. Smoke on your shoulders. Burned hands." My thumb found the blistered skin on his knuckles and stroked it. "You never could keep your hands out of a fire."I screamed. Nothing came out. I was somewhere behind my own face, and I could feel everything and move nothing. I felt the heat of his chest through my palm. I felt his heart slam against it. I felt a grief I had never lived rise in my throat, old and enormous, and it did not belong to me.Grayson caught my wrist. His fingers were shaking so hard they rattled the bones."This is not possible.""No," said my mouth, gently. "

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    OliviaI could not move my hand.The knocks came again. Three, slow, from inside the clay. Each one traveled up through my palm and into my arm and settled in my chest, where my wolf pressed hard against my ribs, wanting to answer."Olivia. Look at me.""I can't let go.""I know." Grayson's hands tightened over mine. "Brace."He tore my hand off the glaze.The seam gave a sharp crack and went dark. Grayson hissed through his teeth, and the room filled with the smell of scorched skin. He dropped to his knees on the carpet and held both hands away from his body. The vase sat on the quilt, green and ugly and silent. A line of sunlight had begun to creep across the carpet toward it.The knocking had stopped.I stared at my own palm. It was red but unmarked. His were another matter. The skin across both of them had gone white and split into blisters."Show me," I said."It is nothing.""Show me."He opened his hands. I took them carefully in mine. The blisters were already closing at the e

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    OliviaThe door opened without a knock.The man stood in the frame with both hands folded on top of his cane. He did not step inside. His eyes went to the vase on the quilt, then to the hand Grayson still held clamped on my wrist, then to the space between our bodies. I had not noticed how little of it there was."You look disappointed, Alpha," he said."I am deciding which wall to put you through.""I would enjoy watching you try. After sunrise." He glanced at the window. The sky behind the glass had gone from gray to pale gold. "Forty minutes."Grayson moved half a step, and that was enough to put his shoulder in front of mine. I felt the heat of his back through my sleeve. I leaned around him."You said you would ask for something," I said."I will.""Ask now.""Olivia," Grayson said, very low."He gave his word. If he wants something, I want to know what it costs before the sun comes up."The man's smile widened. "Quick. I was told you would be.""Told by who?" Grayson said.The a

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    OliviaThe photograph lay face down on the bed between us.Grayson had not spoken for almost a minute. I counted the seconds by the pulse in my throat. Twenty-three hours. That was everything the blue handwriting had left us."We leave in ten minutes," he said at last. His voice was quiet, almost easy. "You stay three steps behind me. You speak to no one but Ben or me. If I say run, you run. If I say shift, you shift. Do you understand?"I looked at him. The gold was back in his eyes, and it stayed longer each time."No."He turned his head slowly. "Olivia.""Beside you. That is the only way I go.""This is not the moment.""It is the only moment. We did it your way. A locked door and a key turned from outside. Look at what is lying on that bed."The room grew warmer. His fingers curled at his sides."He is not sealed anymore," he said. It came out low, close to a growl. "I need you to hear that. There is no seal. There is me, holding him, every second I am awake. The moment someone p

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