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Chapter Eighty Seven

Author: Pinky-pen
last update publish date: 2026-07-18 18:37:09

 Chapter Eighty Seven

POV: Sera Ashwood

I felt it in the middle of the council meeting and I covered it immediately because covering things immediately was something I had spent a year getting very good at and I was not going to lose that skill simply because the bond had completed and I was theoretically now allowed to let things show on my face in public.

What I felt was wrong and I knew immediately that it was wrong in a way that had nothing to do
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