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CHAPTER 68

Penulis: Priscilla
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-06-27 05:33:14
ELENA'S POV

Esmeralda had the coven raising stone before the sun finished rising.

Not figuratively. I stood at the cottage door and watched slabs of granite lift out of the hillside on their own, moving in slow deliberate arcs to ring the sanctuary's outer boundary, stacking themselves into a second wall behind the first like something out of a memory older than any of us.

"Will it hold?" I asked when Esmeralda passed close enough to hear me.

"Against an army of the enslaved, augmented b
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