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Chapter 76

Author: Faryal Javed
last update publish date: 2025-12-04 13:19:23

Rowan surfaced like someone swimming up through tar—slow, dragging, every breath sandpaper in his throat.

The ceiling above him wasn’t stone. Not the chamber. Not the dark.

A room. A bed. Light.

He blinked, eyes dry and burning, and the world tilted sideways. Then a familiar voice—rough with exhaustion, but unmistakable—broke through:

“Ro?”

Alistair.

Rowan turned his head, and pain lanced through the right side of his skull where his ear should have been. He winced. Alistair was already leaning
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