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CHAPTER 72

Author: Ashinashi
last update publish date: 2026-04-23 06:49:27

The moment Samuel’s presence vanished, Adrian felt it, not as absence, but as amputation. Something inside him was ripped away with surgical cruelty. It was not clean, It was not merciful, It was a tearing, A hollowing. A violent separation of something that had long stopped being two and had become one.

Adrian’s body reacted before his mind could comprehend it. His heart stopped. Not slowed, Not faltered, Stopped. The world went black. For one full minute, the Alpha who had outlived armies
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