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CHAPTER 116: AFTER

Autor: Ellen Edgar
last update Data de publicação: 2026-06-22 15:11:28

Rhiannon's POV

They carried me back.

I want to be clear that I argued against this. I was upright. I was functional. My legs worked entirely adequately when called upon to do so.

Nyx said: "You will ride back and you will let someone help you off the horse and you will go to bed."

I said: "I walked out of a vampire fortress with broken ribs and—"

"Yes," she said. "And this time I'm here. So you will ride."

I rode.

Darius rode beside me with the particular alertness of someone who has decided no
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