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CHAPTER 63

Author: Sunkissed
last update publish date: 2026-06-08 06:10:51
ARIA'S POV

They arrived without warning.

Three black vehicles, no pack insignia, moving through Lycan territory's main road at dawn with the particular unhurried certainty of people who had never needed to announce themselves. The border guards let them through—Kael had authorized it, which meant he'd known they were coming.

He hadn't told me.

I found him in his study when the vehicles pulled up, standing at the window with his arms crossed and an expression I was learning to read as con
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