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Chapter 69

Author: Anna C
last update publish date: 2026-04-16 03:04:17

Kael POV

The pack hospital is a suffocating cocoon of herb-thick air and muffled whimpers.

​The buzzing fluorescent tube lights dance like pale ghosts across the sterile linoleum floor. Dr. Nolan and Miss Ophelia are a blur of frantic motion, stitching flesh and packing open wounds with silverleaf poultices. The chaos briefly distracts me from my own despair, but absolutely nothing can chase away the hollow, gaping ache gnawing at my chest.

​It is a void where Liora's laugh used to bloom. A lau
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