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Chapter seventy four: The crown returns

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Aria’s POV…..

The sun rose slowly over the mountains, spilling gold across the courtyard stones. For the first time in what felt like months, the pack grounds were quiet—not from fear, not from exhaustion, but from a strange, tender peace. Since Kaelen and I had returned from the ritual chamber, the entire pack had been watching us with wide eyes, unsure, hopeful, terrified to hope too much.

I could feel them gathering outside the hall before we even stepped inside—our wolves, their families, warriors, elders. All waiting for answers.

Waiting for him.

Kaelen walked beside me, his fingers loosely laced with mine, as though grounding himself… or grounding me. His steps were steady now. His shoulders no longer weighed down by the choking darkness that once lived inside him. But I could still feel his occasional tremors—echoes of the internal war he had barely survived.

He squeezed my hand.

“You ready?” he murmured.

My heart fluttered at the softness in his tone. “Only if you are.”

"I am…
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