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Author: Isobel
last update publish date: 2026-06-11 23:45:56

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE

IVY’S POV

The echoes of the usual ceremonial bells were still vibrating through the walls of the private office when the plush, fluffy warmth of the couch was abruptly cut short.

Aiden stood up, his posture instantly snapping back into the rigid, unyielding form of a warrior. The raw, primal vulnerability and intensity that had bled through our mind-bond just moments ago was entirely locked and trapped within him.

Without casting a single glance down at my almost bare, brui
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