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Chapter 36 -The Choice Beneath the World

Author: Elizabeth Jacob
last update publish date: 2026-05-15 14:25:39

“Choose.”

The word didn’t echo.

It pressed.

Inside my chest.

Inside my bones.

Silas still held me, his grip tight enough that I could feel his restraint shaking underneath it.

“Mira,” he said again, lower now, almost broken, “don’t go down there.”

But the pull beneath the city wasn’t asking.

It wasn’t begging.

It was waiting.

The throne that had risen from the ground stood fully exposed now, massive and ancient, carved with symbols that hurt to look at too long.

And every wolf around us was sti
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