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12: Hollow years

Autor: Estee EE
last update Data de publicação: 2026-07-26 21:08:48

Draven POV

The first year was hard.

Not because of the distance from the pack.

I had been away from Arctic Moon plenty of times before. School and Alpha training had kept me from my home for months at a time. Distance had never been the problem.

The problem was what the distance used to hold.

Layla Voss.

When she was still in the pack and I was away at the Academy, every mile between us had an end. Every journey ended with me coming home. Even before we realized we were fated mates.

After she d
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