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Chapter 95-DEY LIKE COMPANY

Penulis: J L FLETCHER
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The fog closed in after they left. No frogs. No night birds. Just the shack breathing and Mama Delphine humming nonsense to the bones she kept hung in strings over the window.

My mate mark ached like a bruise under my skin—fresh, pulsing, stubborn. Every few heartbeats it tugged me toward the path Xavier had taken, like a hook in the throat. I pushed back. The binding on me held. Whatever trick Mama had laid sat on my skin like wet linen, heavy, clinging, patient.

Jax stood near the open door, shoulder to the frame, staring into the fog. He hadn’t said a word since the King vanished with Marie. His jaw worked, hands opening and closing like he wanted to hit something and couldn’t find a face he’d survive punching. I stood there stupidly, held solid by Mama Delphine’s magical binding.

Mama Delphine clucked her tongue and shuffled past us to the little crate by the wall. She plucked up a fat hen, whispered against its feathers, then—quick—wrung its neck with a sharp twist. No softness
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