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CHAPTER 46

مؤلف: Kiara
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CHAPTER 46

ARIA'S POV

The Heartstone Vale did not feel like home as we rode back in. It felt like a stage, and every eye upon us was an audience waiting for the next act in a bewildering, painful drama. The joyful noise of rebuilding had been replaced by a watchful, anxious quiet.

We installed Kaelen in a small, secure longhouse near the archives, under the guard of both Blackridge warriors and wary rogues. It was not a cell, but it was not a g

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