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48 - My Old Home

작가: Grace Kara
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SELENA

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The last night before we moved on the pack, the air in our hidden little camp crackled with a tension so thick, I could almost taste it – metallic, like unshed blood.

Austin had been different. Still the cold, calculating bastard I knew, but the edges were softer when he looked at me, when he spoke. That night, after the ...distraction...he’d been quiet, watchful.

His gentleness was a dangerous thing, more unsettling than his usual harshness because it made me forget, just for a second, what he was. What we both were.

“Ready Freckles?” he asked, his voice a low rumble in the pre dawn gloom. We’d packed our minimal gear, the rucksacks feeling heavy on our shoulders, filled with weapons, a little food, and the weight of our purpose.

I nodded, my throat too tight for words. My wolf paced under my skin, a restless, eager thing. Revenge was a hunger, and I was starving. “As I’ll ever be.”

“The approach to the Sunken Veil will be the first test.” he said, his eyes scanning th
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