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Chapter 101: Pretend

Author: sunflowersdontshine
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-22 18:09:12

Hessa's Point of View

My wolf surged, claws scraping ribs, a snarl rising. Take her throat, she said. Take it before she takes everything.

I stepped not back, not forward. Sideways, the way you do when you cannot decide if you are a wall or a door.

Dennise laughed.

“Okay. Do I look convincing, Hessa?”

“Damn you Dennise,” I exclaimed “Why violet?” I asked, because the other questions had knives on both ends. “Why that color?”

She almost laughed. “Because the world wanted to know whether a bruise could see.”

The answer landed inside me like a shard. I hated that it was clever. I hated that some part of me wanted to keep it because it was a good sentence.

“Did you come to gloat?” I said.

“I came to warn you,” she said.

The air tightened. “Of what?”

“Of the next cut,” she said. “It won’t be cats. It won’t be quiet.” She looked up, past the glass bones to the pale sky. “You think your walls are high. She thinks they are ornamental.”

“She?” I made myself say the name.

“Valentina.”

“Yes,”
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