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Chapter 60 - The Other Me

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last update Last Updated: 2025-08-25 22:35:32

The courtyard smelled like fire and fear.

Everyone had stopped moving. Soldiers, elders, even Kael, all frozen, watching the thing that had just stepped out of me.

My wolf.

Or… something wearing her shape.

She stood in the center of the courtyard, fur black as midnight, eyes burning gold and red. Her fangs dripped fire. Shadows curled around her paws like chains.

And when she turned her head, it was like she was looking at all of us, but also straight at me.

“Rory…” Thorne’s voice cracked beside me.

“She’s not me,” I whispered.

The seer’s staff trembled. “She is, and she isn’t. That is your soul, girl. The Gate is splitting you in two.”

The wolf growled.

Low. Deep. The kind of sound that promised death.

Then, she spoke.

Her voice was mine, but wilder. Darker. Like something that had burned away all mercy.

“Choose, Rory. Them… or me.”

My blood went cold.

“I don’t understand—”

“Don’t lie to yourself,” the wolf snarled.

“You can’t protect them and carry me. I am the fire. The power. The
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