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Chapter 120: The Claim

Author: Johndoe
last update publish date: 2026-03-25 21:22:12

Kharl POV

The call had barely ended before the room changed.

Not because anyone moved.

Not because anyone spoke.

But because something in me had already settled into place, something I could no longer ignore now that I had seen them, now that Blaze had looked at me with his own eyes and asked who I was.

They were mine.

All three of them.

And whatever else had happened between Celeste and me, whatever damage I had done, whatever years had been lost, that truth remained.

I turned back toward the
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