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44. A Poisoned Heart

Author: Winnie W. W.
last update publish date: 2026-06-15 02:16:50

Selene

I watched him pace. Back and forth, like a caged beast who didn’t even know the bars that held him were made of his own hands.

Damon was furious, but underneath that fury, I saw it, that hesitation, that raw ache when Lyra’s name brushed past his lips. He thought I didn’t notice. He thought his face didn’t betray him. But I had loved Damon too long, too deeply, too destructively, to miss the truth.

And it was tearing me apart.

“You should have handled it,” he growled, turning sharply on
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