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Chapter Sixty-One: Fate Versus Choice

Autor: Orion Vale
last update Data de publicação: 2026-09-02 16:53:51

Serrin's warning wouldn't leave me alone. For days, it haunted me, whispering about the fourth thread. Would they get to choose for themselves, or would fate twist things until it made the choice for them?

After that, I couldn't help watching Kaelan differently. Not suspicious, just... sharper. Like I was finally letting myself see him, really see him, for the first time since the ceremony. If our bond was holding everything up now, I had to face it for what it was. Not the wound it started a
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