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CHAPTER SIXTEEN _ Seeds of Suspicion

Penulis: Mercy V.
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Morning smelled like healing salve and old smoke.

I woke to a dull throb in my arm and the crack of light at the edge of my curtains. For a few disorienting seconds, I didn’t know which version of reality I’d landed in.

Forest, blood moon, bones snapping—

No.

White ceiling. The soft weight of the mattress beneath me. A faint ache where the bandage pulled skin when I shifted.

The wound from the shrine was a sharp, real, present pain.

The other one—the hole my first death had punched through my soul—throbbed deeper.

I rolled onto my good side and squinted at the clock.

Late, by pack standards.

Early, by mine.

I could hear noise outside my room—feet passing, voices low and urgent. The manor was awake and restless.

I pushed myself up carefully, cradling my bandaged arm against my chest.

“My first proper battle scar,” I muttered. “So glamorous.”

The healer had done their work well. The bandage was snug, the throbbing dulled by whatever paste they’d applied. I could still move my fingers, e
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