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Chapter 172

Author: Daniel Paul
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-03 15:35:34

Clara’s POV (through Jean)

Can't say I was shocked when they bursted into my house. I expected it, but not this soon.

Apparently I had underestimated them to an extent, I would have been a lot more prepared, buy well…

I felt the first tug of restraint and instinctively fought against it, every muscle coiling like a spring ready to snap.

More hands gripped me, Lexi, Jax, several of the guards, and I knew they thought they could hold me and that they could control me.

They were wrong. The dark tendrils of my power surged through me, thrumming like live wires under my skin.

“You think you can contain me?” I spat, keeping my voice low and venomous, echoing against the walls of the packhouse.

I twisted violently in the hold of one guard, sending him sprawling backward with a sharp crack as his shoulder hit the floor. “Pathetic.”

Another guard lunged, and I lashed out, a flicker of darkness bursting from my hands, making him stumble back.

The air around me seemed to thrum with energy,
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