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Chapter 116

Author: Marva
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The Glass Wall

POV: Alpha Kaelen Blackwood

When a Warlord drops on a battlefield, the whole army feels it move through the ground, the way a room goes quiet when someone important stops breathing, even before anyone's said a word about it out loud.

I'd caught her before her head hit stone, but the second she went under, the bond flatlined completely. Forty seconds with no pulse. Forty seconds that felt like the longest stretch of my entire life, my own wolf clawing at the inside of my ribs, hal
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April Holmquist
you can't let them end. that's too heartbreaking. I have never really liked when the female goes back to the man that hurt her but this time I want her too. they have been through to much just to end it.
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