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Chapter 13 — Maren Speaks

Author: Cael Voss
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-06-11 11:16:32

She finds me before I find her.

I've been going to the north ridge every morning since the challenge announcement — before dawn, before the pack wakes, before anyone can have opinions about where an Omega who has called a Blood Challenge should or shouldn't be. The ridge is mine in a way nothing else in this pack has ever been mine. I claimed it without anyone noticing, which is the only kind of claiming I've ever been good at.

She's sitting on the ground when I arrive. Back against the largest
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