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26. Why?

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Chapter 26: Why?

ROWAN’S POV

I stared at the numbers on the screen, but they danced uselessly. My eyes burned from hours of reading the same collapsing charts—declining trade routes, starving border villages, rogue attacks hitting faster than our defenses could reset. Crescent Moon was unraveling thread by thread, and every damn strand pointed back to one thing:

Her.

My fist tightened on the edge of the table, the wood groaned but I didn’t care. For months, I had been sitting here like a ghost, pretending to strategize while my mind circled one face, one smile, one girl I should have forgotten. Instead, she walked back into my territory after two months of vanishing—and kissed another man right in front of me.

My jaw locked so hard my molars screamed, I dragged a hand down my face and forced myself to refocus on the projected losses. The shipping line we shared with the Silver Ridge wolves had dropped another twelve percent. Two farms on the east side reported another round of fam
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