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Chapter one hundred and thirty-seven

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last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-24 23:41:40

Bella’s POV

“I don’t even know where to start.”

I stood alone in the training yard behind the circuit’s guest quarters the night air cold enough to make my arms prickle with goosebumps trying to remember what shifting was supposed to feel like when I had never once managed to do it right.

My legs still hurt from three days of training I probably hadn’t fully recovered from. My hands had formed fists at my sides without me realizing some old habit of defense coming up now that I was standing alo
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