The forest wind was still trembling with the echo of Aria’s last scream when Killian turned sharply, his eyes scanning the darkness as though he felt something shift—something approaching. Aria, still fighting for breath from the emotional weight of everything she had just revealed to her mother, wiped her face slowly. Her fingers were trembling, and she didn’t bother hiding it. She had broken open another layer of herself, another wound, and now reality was spreading itself before her like a battlefield.Killian stepped closer to her.“Aria,” he murmured, that tone he only used when he felt her slipping, “look at me.”She did. And for a moment, neither of them spoke.The pain between them wasn’t invisible anymore. It had shape, it had color, it had breath. And it wrapped around everything—their bond, their love, their future.Then Killian’s jaw tightened, and he cupped her face gently, almost too gently for an Alpha as fierce as him.“You survived worse,” he whispered. “But you don’t
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