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Chapter 18

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The shadow’s movement shredded the night, a blur of black and impossibly honed power that tore through trees, smashing through underbrush with the force of a predator unbound, and Kenneth lunged without hesitation, pulling me down behind a fallen log, the impact sending splinters into our faces and dust into our lungs, yet he remained solid, immovable, an anchor in the storm of chaos. His eyes locked on the creature, unflinching, calculating, every muscle coiled and ready, and I could feel the heat of his body radiating against mine, the pulse of his presence a tether stronger than steel, something that made the fear within me flicker into something almost unbearable, almost erotic, in the electric, tense intimacy of survival. My hands clutched his forearm, instinctively seeking connection, needing the certainty of him, of his focus, of the knowledge that he would not—could not—let this night end with me torn from life and thrust into oblivion.

The shadow lunged again, claws raking th
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