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Give Me A Real Reason

Author: Bunmi
last update publish date: 2026-03-20 08:48:14

Jenn’s POV

I stared at him for a long moment after he finished, unable to believe what I was hearing. Tristan was the fox prince. The same one that had gone missing for a year. Didn’t they say he showed up? If for that whole year he’d been locked up in the mad Alpha’s dungeon and only arrived at my territory not long after he was set free, then who showed up for the treaty?

Although that had nothing to do with me, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Who was the imposter? Who was this man sitti
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