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Chapter 8

Author: Marva
last update publish date: 2026-03-24 01:37:58

The Beast Beneath

​POV: Elara Vance

​Pain had become my closest friend.

​In the Blackwood Pack, pain had been a punishment—a slap, a kick, a hunger pang. Here, in the Shadow Valley, pain was a sculptor. It chipped away the weak parts of me, leaving behind something harder, sharper, and far more dangerous.

​It had been three months since I arrived.

​"Again!" Alaric’s voice boomed across the training ring.

​I wiped sweat and dirt from my eyes, tightening my grip on the twin obsidian daggers Alari
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