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Chapter 5: The Lie That Almost Worked

Auteur: Phoebe Freeman
last update Date de publication: 2026-08-13 01:36:53

For a moment nobody in that room said anything at all.

I heard the fire crackling somewhere behind me, heard my own pulse pounding hard enough that I was half convinced everyone else could hear it too. A Lycan bonding. Between you and me. The words just sat there in the air, too big and too strange to actually process.

Selene recovered first, and when she laughed, it wasn't a real laugh — sharp, brittle, designed to cut. "You can't be serious."

"I'm entirely serious," Ronan said, not taking
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