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Chapter 124

Penulis: Thessa
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Caelan's POV

There is a ripple of awareness that pulled me from sleep at dawn on day five. Beside me, Aeliana stirred, feeling the same disturbance through our dual vessel bond.

"Something is wrong," the Entity said to both of us simultaneously. There is magical interference within the pack. It is active and deliberate.

I was already moving, pulling on clothes with the efficiency of someone who'd woken to threats too many times to count. Through the mate bond, I felt Aeliana doing the same, her alarm matching mine.

"Another attack?" she asked aloud, her voice still rough with sleep.

"No. This is something subtler." I reached for the bond connecting me to my pack members, searching for disturbances. Everything seemed normal on the surface—the usual early morning rhythms of a pack waking to routine. But there was something... off. A dissonance I couldn't quite identify.

There, the Entity directed my attention to a specific thread in the pack bonds. That one. The signature is masked by
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