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CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN — Three Into One

Author: Souldraft
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Ava’s POV

Three seconds.

That was how long the clearing held its breath. The elder council were frozen mid-circle while Marcus's wolves were invisible but present, their energy prickling at the edge of my awareness. Celeste on the other hand, her sharp eyes cutting through the dark and Damian beside me with his hand, warm and solid in mine. And across the frost-silvered ground, three figures who had no right to be standing in the same place and were here anyway.

Then Vincenzo smiled.

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