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Chapter 43: Dinner

Author: Ivy Crane
last update publish date: 2026-06-17 07:17:56

Chapter 43: Elara's Pov

"You're stirring that counter-clockwise," Ronan says from behind me. "Does that matter?"

"It matters to me," I say. "Go sit down."

"I'm helping."

"You're narrating. That's different."

"I could be narrating and helping simultaneously. I'm multitalented."

"Ronan." I point the wooden spoon at the kitchen doorway. "Sit."

He goes, hands raised, and I hear him drop into a chair at the table behind me, and then hear Landon immediately begin briefing him on the fort expansion p
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