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Chapter 99: The Blood Trial

Author: Nana A
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He comes willingly.

The words burned into my brain.

Not just the way they were written—slashed across Liam’s windowsill in blood that pulsed with old magic—but what they meant.

Liam wasn’t taken.

He left.

Kael was on his feet the second I screamed.

“He’s not here,” I gasped, shoving open the bedroom door. “He’s gone.”

He didn’t hesitate. “Check the perimeter.”

Already, the ward alarms had begun to chime low and eerie, like bells ringing underwater. Wolves were shifting across the compound, and the scent of panic tainted the air like acid rain.

“His scent leads into the woods,” one scout reported minutes later. “Alone. No signs of struggle.”

My knees buckled.

Because if there were no signs of force… then Liam wasn’t kidnapped.

He made a choice.

We followed the trail through the southern edge of the packlands, Kael on my right, Elder Rhovan at my back. I didn’t speak. Didn’t cry. Didn’t breathe properly.

I just ran.

Through brambles. Through fog.

Through fear.

“Wh
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