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Her Place Beside Him
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2026-03-27 10:15:50The adrenaline that had sustained them through the celestial anointing of the midnight circle and the brutal, blood-dusted reality of the dawn trial had finally begun to ebb, leaving behind an exhausting, hollow ache in Aria’s bones.
The sun was now fully sovereign in the sky, a brilliant, unforgiving gold that stripped away the ethereal magic of the night and illuminated the world in sharp, uncompromising detail. It highlighted the deep purple bruis
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