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Chapter 12: Lukas

Penulis: Katherine Jaynara
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-14 04:09:41

The door closed with a soft click, leaving me alone with the copper-haired girl who fate had cruelly designated as my mate. She sat across from me, her shoulders hunched beneath the woolen blanket, though her eyes never left mine. The mate bond pulsed between us, new and raw, a connection neither of us had asked for yet could not deny. Ares paced restlessly within me, his possessive instincts warring with my rational mind that still struggled to accept this impossible complication.

Silence stretched between us, thick with unspoken questions. I observed her dispassionately, noting how she made herself smaller in the chair, a defense mechanism no doubt learned during her time as—what? A rogue? A prisoner? Something else entirely?

Her scent told a complex story that contradicted her supposed status: beneath the prison filth lay traces of pack life, of privilege once held and lost, of recent trauma and older wounds never properly healed.

"So you're my mate." I kept my voice flat, a statem
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