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Fifty-Five Million

作者: Hans_pen
last update publish date: 2026-07-17 15:39:36

Ava's POV

The city felt different now that I was not hiding in it.

Last time I had come here, I was Sebastian's mate but nobody knew that. I had walked these streets as Ava Wellington from the Night Howl pack — nobody, really, in the context of a Lycan kingdom — and the anonymity had been its own kind of freedom.

In four days I would be a queen.

I was still processing that.

"You are doing it again," Isabelle said beside me.

"What?"

"Smiling at nothing."

"I am smiling at the city," I said.

"The
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