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Kieran's POV

I shrugged my coat on, but her small hand closed around my wrist. Her touch burned through the sleeve.

"Please."

That one word almost broke me.

Gently I pulled free and opened the door. “Later.”

The door slammed with a thick thud behind me as the night slapped my face cruelly with cold.

I didn’t head east. I ran west into the forest.

Branches whipped at my face and arms. I ran blind, ignoring the pain of the branches slapping against me. My lungs burned. The stitch in my side where Sirella had punched me throbbed painfully with every breath I took.

Still I ran.

Soon I got to a small clearing as I stopped and sat down to rest.

I picked up a rock and skittered it across a pond aS it echoed through the forest.

A snap of twigs behind me had me turning around to see what was going on, but I didn’t see anything. Just my imagination. Or maybe guilt.

Scrunching my back to a pine, I kept lowering myself until I was almost lying down and facing the sky. The bark scraped the bac
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  • Mates Deception    171

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  • Mates Deception    170

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  • Mates Deception    169

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