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CHAPTER 100

Penulis: CagalieYula
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The world, as it always does, moved on. But for me, trapped in the silent prison of the willow, time was a different kind of river—slow, deep, and filled with the ghosts of conversations I could no longer have.

I felt a familiar presence approach. Elisse. My daughter, a woman now, with her own little boy clinging to her hand. She sat on the grass, leaning her back against my bark. The sensation was a bittersweet agony.

“Tell me the story again, Mama,” the little boy, Kael, pleaded, his voice the sweetest sound in my silent world.

Elisse laughed softly, and the vibration traveled through me. “Again? You’ll wear the story out, my little wolf.”

“Please? About the brave Regent and the king!”

I poured all my love toward them, a silent scream they could never hear. I’m here, my love. I’m right here.

“Well,” Elisse began, her voice taking on the storytelling tone I knew so well. “The Regent, my mother, was very stubborn. And the King, your grandfather, was even more stubborn.”

He still is, I
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  • THE SUBSTITUTE MATE FOR THE ALPHA KING   CHAPTER 106

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