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143: Savage Delay

Author: Nxy Arden
last update publish date: 2026-03-22 23:17:23

Vivienne

My whole body was screaming in pain as I tried to sit up but that kick had done real damage, the kind that didn’t just bruise flesh but shook bone and rattled organs loose inside you.

Every breath felt wrong, shallow and sharp like my ribs had turned into knives pointing inward, and for a terrifying moment I genuinely wondered if one of them had cracked deep enough to puncture something important.

Healing wasn’t coming. There was no comforting hum of a wolf trying to knit torn tissue
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Please. I need more. This whole chapter had me on edge. Where the heck is ivy??
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