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Chapter Fifteen

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IVY’S POV

The silence in the cabin pressed in like a second skin.

I sat on the edge of the bed, knees drawn to my chest, arms wrapped around them as if I could hold myself together. The fire in the hearth had long since gone out, but I hadn’t moved to relight it. I was too still, too full of noise.

Something had changed in me, or more like something had awakened.

Since the attack, since the fight that wasn’t really a fight but a slaughter—I hadn’t been able to stop replaying the moment over and over. The way my body moved before I even had time to think. The silver shimmer that danced across my skin like moonlight made flesh. The raw power that surged from my fingertips and sent wolves flying through the air.

That wasn’t normal.

That wasn’t an Omega.

And it definitely wasn’t human.

I wasn’t supposed to have a wolf. I wasn’t supposed to feel this bond, this pull, this power vibrating in my veins like music only I could hear. So what was I?

A weapon? A mistake? Or
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