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Chapter 18 - The Word Taste Like Sin

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The door to the Moonhaven packhouse groans shut behind us, and the sound feels final.

Like a lock clicking into place.

Tyson doesn’t speak. He doesn’t look at me. He just walks, and I follow, because what else am I supposed to do after what Aiden said in there? Wolves don’t date. They claim.

My legs feel heavy. Not from the walk back through the packhouse corridors, but from the weight of his words sitting in my chest. As if my life has just been split in two and I wasn’t consulted.

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