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Chapter 22

Author: Iziegbe
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The Fire Before the Storm

Lyra stood in the heart of the forest, her chest heaving with each breath as if her lungs were trying to purge the chaos suffocating her. The moonlight streamed through the thick canopy above, painting her in ghostly silver and casting jagged shadows across the moss-covered ground. Twigs snapped beneath her boots, and the scent of pine and damp earth grounded her, but her thoughts were anything but calm.

She had fled here without thinking, driven by the weight of too many emotions, too many stares, too many questions she couldn’t answer. Every corner of the pack grounds had begun to feel like a cage — not just for her body, but for her spirit. Her fingers trembled as she sank to her knees, curling into fists that clawed at the cold earth.

“I shouldn’t have come back,” she whispered to herself, the words slipping from her lips like a curse.

But she didn’t believe that. Not truly.

She had returned for a reason — for her son, for the truth, for redemption. And y
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