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CHAPTER 14 — The Edge of the Line

Penulis: Mila Stone
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-12-18 23:36:37

POV: Aria

The house felt wrong without Kai nearby.

Not empty.

Not unsafe.

Just… missing something steady I hadn’t realized I’d begun to rely on.

I moved around the kitchen with restless hands, touching things just to hear a sound: the click of a mug on the counter, the soft hiss of the kettle, the scrape of a chair leg. Each noise landed too sharp in my ears, too bright. My senses were still shifting in ways I didn’t fully understand.

Being wolfborn meant feeling everything like the volume knob was stuck on high.

Outside, the sky was sliding from blue into the first shade of twilight. The hour where the forest seemed to pull closer to the house, like breath pressing against glass.

Maya shuffled past, wrapped in my blanket like a walking laundry pile.

“If I don’t get food in the next ten minutes,” she warned dramatically, “I will collapse and haunt you.”

“You already haunt me,” I muttered.

She snorted and rummaged in the cupboards. “You’re acting weird again.”

“You say that like there’
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