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Aurora's Pov

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Chapter 42

AURORA'S POV

We move through the forest in careful silence, the small team spread in a formation Rhys mapped out from three days of patient surveillance, moonlight filtering thin through the canopy overhead.

Kade stays close beside me, not hovering exactly, but near enough that I feel his presence like a steady anchor against the adrenaline building with every step closer to the storehouse. Neither of us speaks. There's no need to, we've gone over the plan a dozen times, every conti
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