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CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE: ESCALATION 

Author: Noor Lawan
last update publish date: 2026-03-19 22:11:39

[Cade's Pov]

I'd known Daren for fifteen years. Fought beside him through countless battles. Trusted him with my life more times than I could count. So when he tried to kill me during what should have been a routine sparring session, I knew something was catastrophically wrong. I hadn’t blamed him, not when Elena patched up my arm in the infirmary, blood dripping from his claw marks in my flesh; and not when I spent most of the night with an ice pack to my swollen jaw. What I was though, was c
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