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The rescue that burned

Author: Delight
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-08 23:22:18

“Ouch…oh” I groan as I slightly raise my head up. The first thing that I can tell is the piercing feeling at the bottom of my skull--a deep pounding that radiates down the neck in waves. My eyelids opened briefly to relapse shut as the dark light pierced on them. All movement aggravated the pounding, every breathing caused my chest to hurt.

A moment later I noticed that I lay upon something soft. A bed. Sheets under my arms. The air was warmer, and flavoured a little with pine and something faintly spicy--cinnamon? No… cedarwood.

I wasn't out cold anymore. I was’nt lying in the cold dirt of the cell. I wasn’t with the guards.

I finally open my eyes.

The ceiling made of wood and beams were low and polished. There was only a single window that allowed in muffled daylight. In a corner, beside it, there was a small fire burning in a stone hearth, and the cracking of the fire was the only sound in the room--until a gentle shuffling was heard.

I turned and winced, as a sharp strain of pain
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  • THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE    chapter 25 silent defiance

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  • THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE    chapter 24 savior from the shadow

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  • THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE    chapter 23 Before the end.

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