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Fire Meets Winter

Author: Meli
last update publish date: 2026-03-10 00:45:20

**Chapter Thirty-Seven**

Rose did not sleep that night.

Not truly.

Even after Kael left the clearing, disappearing back into the forest with the silent grace of a predator born to shadow, the air still felt charged. The place where he had stood seemed colder than the rest of the woods, frost clinging stubbornly to the grass in delicate white patterns.

Fire and ice.

The thought rolled through her mind like a riddle she
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