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Chapter 72

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Murielle's POV

"Save it." The younger man tightened his grip when I tried to wrench my arm free. "If we were going to kill you, we wouldn't have dragged you this far."

That wasn't nearly as comforting as he seemed to think it should be.

A few feet ahead, the older man's body folded forward as the shift took him properly, skin giving way to dark fur until a wolf stood where he'd been seconds earlier, broad enough through the shoulders that I understood what they meant to do before either of the
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