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Chapter 38: After the Fall

작가: Abby Reid
last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-12-18 21:49:43

Aria’s POV

I didn’t hear the Assembly end.

I felt it.

Something in the air shifted, like the estate had exhaled after holding its breath for too long. The Omega Block hummed the same way it always did, but my wolf stirred uneasily, restless, pacing inside me like it was listening for a sound only it could hear.

Something had gone wrong.

Or right.

Sometimes those felt the same.

I was sitting on the cot when it hit me—that sudden hollow drop in my stomach, the kind you get when you miss a step you thought was there. My hand came up to my chest without permission, fingers curling into the fabric of my shirt like I could anchor myself to my own heartbeat.

Lucian.

Everything always circled back to him.

The waiting was the worst part. Not knowing. The quiet stretched too thin, turning every second into something sharp. I tried to count my breaths. In, out. Slow. Steady. But my thoughts kept drifting back to the same thing.

The shawl.

I could see it so clearly. The soft gray one I’d grabbed
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