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The Quiet Between Heartbeats

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Star’s POV

My wolf was silent. Not gone, but curled somewhere deep within me, so still it frightened me. I called to her often in my mind, but the response was always the same: a fading echo, a flicker of pain, then nothing. Like she was sleeping… or dying.

I knew why. Wolfsbane. Hidden in the food Ravena brought me, masked beneath herbs and honeyed poison. Subtle enough to not kill me instantly, but steady and cruel, like watching something you love wither leaf by leaf.

That was her game. Slow degradation. Quiet torture. She didn’t chain me anymore. There was no need. My wolf was too weak to shift, too tired to roar. My strength waned daily, but my resolve? That only grew stronger.

I moved stiffly through the house, barefoot and swollen, every step dragging like iron. The bungalow was old, chipped paint, warped floors, windows too cloudy to see clearly. But I found one that creaked open
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