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CHAPTER TEN: THE WARNING

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SELENE'S POV.

I could not believe it. After everything, after thinking I was finally free, here I was again, back to the same cold, damp cage that reeked of hopelessness. Back to square one. I expected that after Caelum had seen me, he would send me back to his pack or give me a better place to stay in his pack, and not the prison.

I sat in a corner, hugging my knees tightly against my chest as the reality of it all crushed me like a boulder. The iron bars around me glistened faintly under th
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