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A Night Of Promises

Author: Avery
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-17 19:13:20

Kaelen’s POV

The scent of blood hits me before I reach the door. It’s faint at first, carried on by the night wind, metallic, sharp, and wrong all at once. Every instinct in me goes still. Then, with the next breath I take, it fills me, and I know.

Selene.

I don’t remember crossing the yard or shoving open the healer’s door. One moment I’m outside, the next I’m inside the hut, the world nothing but a blur of movement and panic.

She’s there on the bed — pale, trembling, her hair damp against her face. The healer’s hands are already moving fast, pressing herbs to her wrists, muttering words I can’t hear. Aeris kneels beside her, holding a bowl of water that’s gone red.

For one heartbeat, I can’t move. My chest feels tight, too full of something raw and heavy.

Then I’m at her side. “What happened?”

The healer looks up, her eyes shadowed. “The bond is eating through her veins. I’ve slowed the bleeding, but—”

“Don’t say but,” I snap, my voice breaking before I can stop it.

Selene’s eyes fl
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