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Chapter sixteen

Author: Night Walker
last update publish date: 2026-09-10 16:55:43

KAEL POV

I woke before dawn.

For several seconds, I remained still beneath the trees, staring into the darkness while the memories of the previous night slowly returned to me. The cliff. Arabella crying. The heat that had come over her on our journey through the woods. The way she had looked at me when she reached for my hand.

Then I noticed something.

Something was wrong.

Or perhaps, for the first time in months, something was finally right.

I looked down at my hands.

My breath caught.

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