[Bonus Chapter: Slade's Perspective]The wind and snow in the north cut like knives.Corbin and I were now packless Rogues. We hid in an abandoned logging cabin. The firewood in the stove crackled, but my body couldn't feel a single trace of warmth.Ever since we were kicked out of the medical group's building that day, my world had completely fallen apart.The pain of the broken mate bond ate at my bones like poison every single day. My eyes, ruined by the arena's toxins, were not only blurry now but also stung like needles every midnight.But this physical pain wasn't even a fraction of the agony in my heart.In my past life, I actually always resisted her approach. I was a broken monster who crawled out of the underground fighting ring. My stupid pride made me hate anyone's pity.Every time she brought me a bowl of medicine, and every time she deliberately slowed her pace in the dim hallway just to match my steps, I saw it as a constant reminder that I was a useless cripple.I was d
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