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Chapter 66

Author: Tadi Raf
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Morwenna's POV

I never expected fire to feel like memory.

It wasn't heat that seared me as I stepped into the stone ring etched with ancient runes. It was sensation, the smell of rain on pine, the feel of Leofric’s mouth on my neck, the sound of my mother whispering warnings in the dark. Everything collided in that firewalker's circle. Every mistake. Every kiss. Every betrayal.

My bare feet burned as I stepped forward. Each pace stripped away something: a lie I told myself, a truth I refused to accept, a dream I’d buried beneath survival.

They called this the Trial of Loyalty. But to what?

I once thought loyalty meant staying with Leofric. Then I thought it meant leaving him. Now, I wasn't sure if either choice meant anything at all. All I knew was that every step I took forward felt like it scorched something inside me clean.

Voices rose in the flames. My own voice. Leofric’s. Sabine’s. Caleb's. My mother’s. They echoed around me, twisting into a chorus of doubt.

"He w
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