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135. Threads in the Dark

Author: Cate_Mae
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-18 04:45:47

Edward

The world hasn’t felt right since the moment I realized Albert was gone.

Even now, standing on the edge of the Still Waters forest with the scent of damp soil and pine thick in the air, I can still hear his voice echoing faintly in my head, a memory, not the bond. The silence between us is heavier than anything I’ve ever known.

I don't think that I can take losing another mate.

He wouldn’t have gone far. That was what I kept telling myself when I found his training clothes missing from our room, when Cess said he hadn’t seen him at breakfast. Albert had probably gone for a morning run, maybe to clear his mind after the past few tense days. He’d be back before lunch.

But then lunch came and went.

And the bond… it was gone again.

Now it’s been nearly five days since his scent was last picked up at the forest trail, and my patience, my control, is fraying. I’ve split the pack into groups, each combing different routes through the forest, with warriors scent-trailing and scouts fly
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    AlbertThe soup tasted like ashes in my mouth.I forced myself to swallow, pretending it was fine, pretending the tremor in my hands was because I was tired and in pain and not because I was afraid. My head no longer pounded like before, and the dizziness had faded, replaced by a hollow ache that stretched from my chest to the pit of my stomach. Every day since Emon brought me here, I had felt my body fight to recover. Slowly, painfully, piece by piece.I was getting stronger. But not strong enough. Not yet.“Drink this too,” Emon said, his voice soft, almost gentle, as he placed a glass of water beside me. His eyes, those warm brown eyes I once thought were my refuge, watched me too closely.I took the glass and drank obediently. “Thank you.”He smiled, relieved. “You’re being so good lately. I knew you would understand that I’m only doing this for you, Albert.”I forced a smile back. “I know.”It wasn’t true. I didn’t know anything anymore.The last two days blurred together, a rhy

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