Fate Or Mates
For the first time since the festival lights went out, I felt not like a victim waiting for the next blow, but like a warrior preparing for a necessary and final fight.
“Thank you,” I breathed.
He didn’t answer with words. He just held me tighter, his heartbeat a steady promise against my cheek, a promise of protection, of vengeance, and now, of a shared resolution.
The girl from the rooftop had been alone. The woman in this bed was not. And soon, the ghost would learn the difference.
A week passed in a strange and suspended rhythm, a rhythm of healing. Elara’s poultices and tonics were relentless, and the quiet of our rooms felt stark against the simmering tension of the pack outside.
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