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Chapter Eighty Two

Author: Dvyn rite
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-09 05:04:08

Gideons POV~

“Winifred, you can’t go to Tyler,” I croaked, my voice weak, my fingers tight around her wrist as she looked down at me, standing next to my bed in the safe house, her green eyes shadowed with remorse. My kidney disease had shrunk me, a shadow of my former self, yet the revelation of the Silver Veil Vessel Trial—a secret that marked Elara since birth—burned more fiercely than fever. The walls of the safehouse appeared to close in around us, and we began to choke on the smell of antiseptic and the presence of fear. The reports from Vellex guards about Silver Veil taking Elara, barely alive from Tyler’s ritual lab, caused a feeling of pain in my chest. My love for Elara, my daughter, was a wildfire, but the guilt of my affair with Rosa years before — a betrayal Winifred never knew about — ate at my bones, destroying the marriage we’d worked to keep patched together through a lifetime of agony.

With a wrench she released her hand, her voice shaking, but firm. “Gideon, I have
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