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Chapter 13

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Griffen's Point of View

The morning light creeps in through the thin curtains, soft and pale, but it does nothing to soften the tension knotting my chest.

I stir awake, the ache in my body nothing compared to the chaos churning in my head. My eyes open slowly, heavy with a night of broken sleep and too many unanswered questions. I stare up at the wooden ceiling for a moment, trying to remember where I am, until the memories start to flood in like a punch to the gut.

Aria.

The firelight on her face.

The feel of her soft lips pressed desperately to mine.

The way she shoved me away from her.

The look in her eyes when I said those words... When I told her she was just a werewolf.

I sit up slowly, dragging a hand through my hair, while everything from last night replays like a brutal movie in my head. Her voice, shaking with anger and pain. The crack in it when she told me to reject her. The way I froze, because hearing those words nearly broke something in me I didn’t even
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