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Chapter Ninety-Nine

Author: Shalom Egbebi
last update publish date: 2025-12-16 07:14:36
Kairos’s POV

“If loss is the price, then I will decide what I lose.”

“If you take one more step toward her, I will tear the Thread apart with my teeth.”

The creature paused.

Snow hissed beneath its feet as it stopped moving. Blue light pulsed faintly beneath its skin, like veins filled with cold fire. It studied me the way a hunter studies terrain. Not as prey. As resistance.

Rowan flanked my left. Two guards spread behind me. Elowen stood rigid, her hands clenched, breath shallow.

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