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CHAPTER 150

Author: Sunkissed
last update publish date: 2026-08-10 15:37:31

LYRA'S POV

The ceremony grounds were full.

Every eligible pack member — the specific collective gathering of a community that understood what the full moon mating ceremony meant and had attended accordingly. Not the inner circle, not the council. Everyone. The particular communal quality of an occasion that belonged to the whole pack rather than to its formal structures.

I stood in the assembly.

Not the edge.

For the first time in eight years I was not at the edge.

Rhys had found me before I le
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