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Chapter 24: When Small Hands Heal Big Hearts

Author: Valencia Robertson
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-13 05:42:35

[RHIANNON]

I woke before dawn.

Morning light filtered through the infirmary window, grey and tired. My body felt better—stronger than yesterday, though exhaustion still clung to my bones.

Nyx stretched inside my mind, calmer than she'd been in weeks. Almost hopeful.

'We survived the shift,' she observed. 'We're getting stronger.'

"Barely."

'Still counts.'

Mira had cleared me yesterday evening. I'd stayed one more night to be safe, but now restlessness clawed at me. I needed to move, to be useful, and to stop staring at white walls.

I dressed in the clothes Arie had brought. Avoided the main hallways where I might run into Kael or have to explain why I was walking around when I should be resting.

His words replayed on loop: "We need to finish this conversation."

What conversation? The one where he'd tell me the pack needed a Luna but not someone like me? Where he'd explained his care was protective duty, nothing more?

'You're overthinking,' Nyx chided.

"I'm protecting us."

'From what?'
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