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RELUCTANT ALLIANCE
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2026-08-30 15:00:29CHAPTER 92: RELUCTANT ALLIANCE
MIRASeraphine and I meet three days after the fight, both of us still recovering, both of us carrying the same exhausted wariness that comes from nearly killing each other before a five-year-old's impossible intervention changed everything neither of us could have predicted."I don't trust this," she says without preamble, sitting across from me in the same farmhouse where Selene was born, though she's chosen a chair as far from the window
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