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Chapter 55 – The Weight of a Wish

Author: Elian Grey
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-09 01:24:01

Raine

The SUVs enveloped me in their metal skeleton, doors slamming shut with a suddenness that reverberated through my bones. My wrists burned with the cable ties slicing through my skin, each bump of the engine pressing the plastic closer until my fingers became numb with pins and needles.

Rain pounded against the roof outside like a horde of invaders trying to break through, the wipers slicing through it in frantic sweeps across the glass. Silhouettes of the convoy blended as we tore down the highway, headlights bouncing off wet asphalt.

And Cassian—

He was nowhere to be found.

They'd pulled me away from him, yanked me off his side like a payload, and all I could do was reminisce about the whisper that had slipped out from his lips before the hurricane engulfing us.

Don't.

He'd done it, though. He'd done the one thing I'd begged him not to.

He'd wished me alive.

And Roman—God, Roman—he'd given it.

I pressed my forehead against the cold of the window, my own face pale
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