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Chapter 71: The Height of it
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2026-09-11 13:08:36
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"A month," I said as I stood on the repaired ridge overlooking the sanctuary. The air smelled like fresh timber and turned earth. "Feels longer. Feels like we barely made it."Draven came up behind me and rested his hands on my waist. "We did make it. The wards hold. The dead are buried. The bonds are quieter."Kai leaned on the new railing, still careful with his side. "Quieter is good. I can sleep without feeling like someone is about to cut the link."Asher stood a little apart, eyes on the western stretch that still showed scars from the Keeper and Silas. "The presence remains. Dormant. Aware. But it has not pushed. That is more than I expected."Lila sat on a low wall nearby, one hand on her growing stomach. "The baby is stronger every check. Mira still cannot say what the cold edge means. We will find out when it arrives. Until then I build and I wait."I turned to face them. The trinity marks on my skin felt different now—scarred in places from the seal break, but steady. The S
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Buttercup "Do it now!" I shouted back at the bond link as Silas finished devouring the second life in front of me, his victim's scream still echoing in my skull. "He refused. Open the seal!" The seal inside us shattered. It did not open gently. It tore violently, as if something on the other side had been clawing to get out all along. White-hot and freezing pain ripped through my chest simultaneously, it was what my body could not process. The marks on my skin blazed and then guttered as one of the anchors holding the structure together gave way with an almost audible snap. I collapsed to my knees on the neutral ground, the impact felt all through my body. Behind the wards, Draven roared and Kai cursed in a voice I barely recognized. Asher didn't say anything. "Hold the line," I gasped through the bond, my voice cracking under the strain. "Do not let it turn on us first." The air above the strip of ground split apart with a sound like the world itself screaming. What emerged
Luna's Rejection: Draven's Dirty Secret Chapter 71: The Height of it
BUTTERCUP "This is the last offer." I stepped onto the neutral strip of ground between our outer wards and the dark tree line, my voice carrying farther than I felt. Draven, Kai, and Asher stayed just behind the boundary, close enough for the bonds to hold, far enough that the choice stayed mine alone. "Release every bonded pair you control. Leave our territory. Leave the safe house alone. Walk away from me and everything tied to me. Do that, and we do not release what is sealed inside our bonds." Alpha Silas stood opposite me, smiling like we were discussing the weather instead of the fate of everyone I loved. "Buttercup. Still trying the soft path." His voice dripped with amusement and contempt. "I almost admire it." "It is not soft." I mentioned. "It is the last door. After this there is only the other thing." He lips grew into a thin wry smile. "You mean the Shadow Keeper." He let the silence stretch, savoring it. "You would free that to stop me? You barely survived binding i
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