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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Author: Brooke Meyer
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The firelight flickered low in the small clearing, shadows dancing across Lucian’s sharp features. He sat opposite me, cloak draped over his shoulders, his crimson eyes glowing faintly in the dark like embers refusing to die out. For hours, he had driven me through merciless drills, and yet it wasn’t my aching body that kept me restless, it was the question clawing at me.

Finally, I couldn’t hold it in anymore.

“Who are you?”

Lucian didn’t move at first. His hand stirred the embers with a branch, sparks rising into the night. The silence stretched until it felt like the trees themselves leaned in to hear his answer.

“You already know what I am,” he said at last, his voice quiet, even. “A rogue. A man with too many ghosts.”

“That’s not an answer,” I pressed. My voice was stronger than I felt. “You train me, push me to the edge, but you hide everything. Why? Why help me at all? You could’ve left me to die.”

His eyes lifted from the fire and locked onto mine. For the first time, I
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