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CHAPTER 116

Author: S.Lorieen
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-23 12:16:38

It had been seventeen days since the bond was severed. Raine knew because she'd been counting, and she hadn’t shifted once since it happened. Her wolf felt distant now, buried somewhere she couldn't reach, like an echo.

The mornings bled into each other now, soft and indistinguishable like the fog that curled over the windowsills at dawn. The air here always smelled like pine bark and old stone, sharp and earthy with the faintest tinge of woodsmoke.

Raine woke to silence and went to bed with it. No distant voices, no patrols, no pack energy humming through the walls, just her own heartbeat and the occasional call of birds echoing through the trees.

The cottage existed in perpetual quiet, and it was the kind of stillness that pressed against your eardrums until you started hearing things that weren't there. Sometimes she caught herself listening for footsteps on the stairs, voices from another room, anything to break the endless hush.

Killian was rarely around, he came and w
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