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Chapter Eighty-Two: Promises Carved in Time

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The wagon wheels groaned against the forest path, each rotation kicking up dust that caught the early morning light. Mangolia sat at the reins, his fingers tight around the leather straps, but his gaze kept drifting to his Alpha seated behind him.

Ligon's face remained impassive as he watched the trees blur past, but something in the set of his jaw told Mangolia he was listening to every sound, measuring every shadow. Always alert. Always ready.

"How far?" Ligon's voice cut through the rhythm of hoofbeats.

"Half a day's ride." Mangolia's throat tightened. "They'll be… surprised."

That was an understatement. His parents had mourned him. He'd taken Glacy to a side and requested she checked on his parents but she had told him there wasn't a need.

"I'd heard this in passing and I didn't know you were the one then.... but the Paul's mansion mourned the loss of their firstborn. They think you're dead." She had said, that's why it was imperative he reported back home to clarify he still live
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