They Both Wanted Me
The training grounds were never empty, filled day and night with wolves and vampires and hybrids honing their skills, preparing for a battle that none of them truly understood.
Aurora moved among them each morning, offering encouragement, answering questions, calming fears. She had become the face of the resistance, the symbol that everyone looked to for hope. It was a role she had never asked for, but one she couldn't refuse.
"You're carrying too much," Rylan said one afternoon, finding her alone in the garden behind the cabin. The flowers had died weeks ago, killed by the first frost, and the bare branches of the old oak stretched toward the gray sky like pleading hands.
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