Alpha’s Forbidden Mate
Xander painted the repaired hulls in colors that almost shimmered, and the kids in the alleyways started using her name as currency: “Doctor See, Doctor See, she’ll keep you breathing, but you better owe her.”
Sometimes, Wyn came by after a reading—voice hoarse, eyes rimmed with exhaustion, pockets full of the city’s new rumors. “Someone’s moving against Ember,” they’d say, or “House is splitting; half of them want to parley.” Some nights Wyn and Carolina played cards, and on others they stayed up till dawn, bent over a child’s collapsed lung or another shot-up runner. Carolina kept a ledger of her own, private and unsentimental: not the bodies she saved, but the ones she couldn’t. There wer
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