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THE COST OF HIDDING

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Chapter 34: The Cost of Hiding

Ren

She went rigid in my arms within the hour, exactly as Aldric had warned, and I understood in that moment precisely how much I had never truly grasped about what these seven years had cost her, not the wrap, not the careful smiles, not even the letter Kaelan now held over her like an executioner's blade, but this. The actual, physical price of surviving as someone the crown had decided, generations ago, should never have been allowed to exist at all.

Aldric had
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