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Chapter 13: Bloodlines and Bullet Holes

Author: Styna F.
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The city didn’t sleep. It simmered, restless and raw, nerves stretched tight beneath neon and shadow, humming with the kind of anticipation that curdled into dread. Every window watched. Every alleyway listened. There was a sense—impossible to ignore—that something catastrophic hovered on the horizon. Celeste pressed her palms to the cold railing of her penthouse balcony, the world sprawling beneath her like a living thing. Violet energy frothed beneath her skin, restless, electric, threading through her veins and demanding release. The city’s heartbeat thumped in time with hers, quick, expectant, ready to explode.

Behind her, Kael’s presence gathered like a storm. Gold light shimmered around him, brushing up against her senses, wrapping her in a heat that both steadied and stoked the fire inside her. He was a paradox: her anchor, grounding her when the wolf snarled for blood, and her greatest temptation—the spark that made her wonder how glorious it would feel to let everything burn.
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