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Chapter 109

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Sable's POV

Ivy stayed a week, long enough that I spent most evenings dragging Corwin into good-natured teasing about dinners he swore weren't as significant as she described, which only made everyone more convinced they absolutely were. By the time she left, riding out with a wave and a promise to visit again soon, Rook had apparently agreed to accompany her back through Ironclaw's gates one more time, ostensibly to finalize some border paperwork.

Nobody believed that excuse anymore, least of
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    Sable's POVIvy stayed a week, long enough that I spent most evenings dragging Corwin into good-natured teasing about dinners he swore weren't as significant as she described, which only made everyone more convinced they absolutely were. By the time she left, riding out with a wave and a promise to visit again soon, Rook had apparently agreed to accompany her back through Ironclaw's gates one more time, ostensibly to finalize some border paperwork.Nobody believed that excuse anymore, least of all him.Alaric found me that evening on the small balcony off our chambers, watching the last of the sunset bleed orange across the western hills, the same direction Bastian's forces had once come pouring through in the worst night either of us had lived through."You've been quiet since Ivy left," he said, joining me at the railing."Just thinking.""About Rook and Corwin?""A little." I smiled, the warmth of it still sitting pleasant in my chest. "Mostly about how strange it is, watching peop

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