Alpha's begging me back home
By the time he reached his den, he was soaked to the bone, looking like a drowned rat stripped of its pride.
He slumped onto the sofa, the "City of Cycles" clutched in his palm. To his shock, the artifact was burning hot, pulsating against his skin like a frantic heartbeat. He dangled it before his eyes. The pendant was carved from jet-black jade—a lotus seed on one side, leaves on the other—hanging from a platinum chain that mimicked the delicate, interlocking structure of a spinal column.
Having spent years with Victoria the designer, Nathan knew the symbolism: lotus flowers meant rebirth. But he was a staunch materialist, a male who believed only in tooth and claw. The mystical vibration
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