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Chapter 10: The Empty Seat

Author: Dalong white
last update publish date: 2026-07-14 00:48:30

HUDSON’S POV

I jerked awake in my bed with sweat soaking my sheets and pain ripping through my chest. My hand flew to the spot over my heart where the mate bond used to sit warm and alive. In the nightmare I had reached for Bailey only to feel her slip away again.

For a few disoriented seconds I turned my head and searched for her scent in the room, expecting to catch the faint trace of silver-blonde hair and wildflowers that always lingered wherever she went. Then reality crashed back down.

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