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CHAPTER 11

Author: Ella Mahmud
last update publish date: 2026-04-09 17:04:06

WINTER POV

Sleep didn’t come easy.

Even when my body was exhausted… my mind wouldn’t shut off.

Marcus’s message.

My reply.

Dante’s voice.

We dismantle him.

The words replayed over and over until sometime before dawn, I must’ve drifted off—because when I opened my eyes again, sunlight was already creeping through the curtains.

And voices…

Low.

Focused.

Dangerous.

I sat up slowly.

My body ached from yesterday’s training, from the fight, from everything. But underneath that ache… there was somethi
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