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Chapter Twenty-One

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last update Last Updated: 2025-05-18 22:22:07

IVY’S POV

I’d never felt more seen… or more alone.

The stares weren’t always obvious. Sometimes they lingered a second too long, other times they were so brief I questioned if I imagined them. But I wasn’t imagining it. The whispers, the careful silence when I entered a room, the weight of eyes when my back was turned. The Nightfall Pack was wary of me, wary of what I’d become.

Or maybe… of what I’d always been.

And Kane, he’d changed too.

He no longer sought me out, no longer looked at me like I was the girl who had once crashed into his world. Now, he looked at me like I was the storm itself.

He was colder, more measured, always watching but never reaching. Even when we shared the same space, breathing the same air, it felt like a chasm stretched between us. I couldn’t touch him. Not really.

And maybe that was the cruelest part of all.

The air in the training grounds was thick with tension. Warriors sparred in silence, sweat-slicked bodies moving through precise, calculated motions.
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