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Chapter Forty-Eight – Lines in the Ground

مؤلف: Souldraft
last update تاريخ النشر: 2026-04-15 21:34:04

Damian’s POV

The howls faded slowly. One pack after another, the echoes rolled across the mountain until the forest settled again. But the silence that followed wasn’t the same as before.

Every wolf in the clearing felt it. Ava was still touching the altar and the stone had stopped pulsing violently, but the energy running through it hadn’t disappeared. It had settled into something steadier, something deeper, like a current flowing beneath the ground.

My hand was still wrapped around her wrist
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