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Chapter 86

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Chapter 86

***Ronan's POV**

The stone that could have saved her shattered in my hands and I let it.

I knelt in the dirt behind the old oak tree where i used to play as a child. Back when the world made sense. Back when mates were fairy tales and love was something that happened to other people. Once, this tree was where I carved .t names into the bark. Now it watched in silence as I buried everything I'd lost.

The moonstone fragments cut through my fingers like glass. Each piece smaller than a coin but sharp enough to slice through skin and hope. What was left of the Nightbane ancestral stone, three hundred years of family magic, reduced to glittering dust and my mother's tears.

My father wouldn't even look at me. My mother just wept. Not for me... for the stone. Few hours of silence in a house that used to feel like home. Few hours of knowing I'd failed the only person who ever mattered.

"Foolish boy," she'd whispered, her voice colder than winter mornings. "Throwing away centuries
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