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CHAPTER 77 – Ronan’s Secret Visit

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Ronan’s hand remained around Lyra’s wrist as if letting go would shatter something fragile inside him.

The lantern’s glow painted sharp shadows across his face, and Lyra could see the cracks in his restraint, tiny fractures in the mask he wore for the pack. His breathing was controlled, but his eyes were not. They burned with the kind of fury that had nowhere safe to go.

Tobias stepped back without being asked.

He didn’t leave the chamber, but he shifted into the darkness near the shelves, givi
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