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"That necklace—the one you're so fond of? Laced with something special. A substance lethal to Lycans. All it took was your touch, your bond, and the poison went straight to him."
I shook my head harder, panic clawing at my chest. "No—he would've told me, he—"
Duncan chuckled, low and cruel, pulling something from his pocket. A small mirror. He held it out to me with mock ceremony. "Then look."
My hands trembled as I took it, my breath catching before I even raised it to my neck.
And then I saw it.
The mark.
The bond that had once pulsed warm and alive against my skin—Ciro's claim, his promise—was gone. Faded into nothing but a ghost of what it had been. Cold. Empty.
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