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72 - Progress

Author: Grace Kara
last update publish date: 2026-04-07 19:31:19

"I'll come back tomorrow," Winter said eventually. "Check the wound. Bring more food if I can steal it without getting caught." She paused, studying Vex's intelligent eyes. "Levi said you were bonded to my grandmother. Morwenna."

Vex's ears pricked forward at the name.

"I never met her. she died before I was born. During the massacre." Winter's throat felt tight. "Everyone here talks about her like she was a hero. But she also cursed someone who was barely older than a child, and that curse
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    Ezekiel's golden eyes fixed on her. "Winter." "Is none of your concern." The woman's hands glowed faintly. Some kind of elemental magic preparing to manifest. "You need to leave. Now. Before we're forced to defend ourselves." "Winter," Ezekiel repeated. Not explanation. Not negotiation. Just stating the only thing that mattered. "She doesn't want to see you," another witch said. Younger, dark-haired, expression hostile. "She's finally safe from werewolf brutality and you think you can just--" "Liar." The word came out flat. Certain. "She sent a message. Wants to talk. You're keeping her here." The witches exchanged glances. Nervous. Like they hadn't known Winter had found a way to contact him. "Even if she did send a message," the older woman said carefully, "that doesn't give you the right to invade our sanctuary. To break our wards and threaten our people." Ezekiel took a step forward. The witches flinched back despite themselves. "Not threatening. Retrieving my mate." "Your

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    "Well," Jax said weakly. "They definitely know we're here now." Ezekiel's hand pressed harder. The curse responded, power flooding through his arm and into his palm. Raw force meeting magical resistance. The barrier held for approximately three seconds before crack lines appeared, spreading outward from where his skin touched magic. The wards shattered. Glass breaking in slow motion, pieces of crystallized light falling through air and dissolving before they hit ground. The shimmer disappeared. Where it had been stood a narrow cave entrance, almost invisible between two massive boulders. Easy to miss if you weren't looking for it. Impossible to miss once the concealment fell. "You just broke centuries-old protection wards," Jax said. His voice had gone quiet. Awed or horrified, hard to tell which. "Like they were nothing." They had been nothing. Not compared to the curse's power. Not compared to Ezekiel's need to reach Winter. The cave entrance was dark. Narrow. Barely wide eno

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    Movement at the alcove entrance made Winter look up. A small bat hung from the low ceiling, its wings folded, eyes reflecting moss-light. Cave bats were common in the sanctuary, harmless creatures that ate insects and ignored the witches who lived around them. This one was watching Winter directly. An idea formed. Stupid. Dangerous. But once the thought took root, Winter couldn't shake it. Cave bats could navigate the wards. they came and went freely, too small and insignificant for the protection spells to register as threats. And if one could carry a message... Winter sat up slowly. The bat's ears twitched, tracking the movement. "Could you take something to someone?" Winter asked quietly. Feeling ridiculous for talking to a bat. "If I gave you a message, could you find the Alpha King?" The bat didn't respond. Obviously. It was a bat. But Vex made a low rumbling sound. Approval, maybe. Or just acknowledging the question. Winter dug through the small pouch Sophia had given he

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    The silence he left behind was louder than a scream. Winter sat frozen on the hard wooden chair, her entire being vibrating with the aftershocks of his presence. Her mind was a kaleidoscope of fractured images: the terrifying intensity of his golden eyes, the shocking heat of his body so close t

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