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me flat before my eighteen
taring at the sky, before I
word and held out his hand
s dist
re showi
im pull me up, brushing the d
up. I sighed. "Fin
ways saw through me. I picked my sword back up, and tha
s. Luca wasn't even bothering to pretend. He stood against one of the sto
ing this," I c
mens
word at him. "C
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vel
his throat. "Are
d wider. And I couldn't help smiling either, becaus
best things, and sometimes we actually acted like normal siblings. We didn't share blood. It nev
hed his sword. "
my practice sword a
vel
stop. When I turned back, the
white dre
wned.
e I aske
sn't an
r father." He smiled
wer. But I knew better
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hboring territories. Even families I hadn't seen in years suddenly re
mirror while Aria fought
p mov
standing h
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like f
ite dress fell to my ankles, clean and simple, nothing li
do I
e tro
erf
it faded fast. "
ated. "A
ut to
t ever
alking about for months. Who would I find? A warrior? A noble? An alpha? Whoever he was, his life was a
ranger who happened to share my fa
d my hand. "Y
on't kn
he said it like
d against the frame, dressed in black. His eyes mo
ook bea
"People might think
lerate
Li
his arm instead. "Come on. Father
noticed the guards weren't standing where they usually did. There were more of
happening
d at them. "
than anything. Luca
mother stood beside my father on the raised platform. The royal council
d forward, and th
daughter tur
ut. I smiled. The
future of this king
m. My mother was smiling. Beside m
to me. "Evelyn F
then another, and it felt like the whole kingdom was watc
velyn Faye is the official
Complete
Others just stood there, frozen. And somewhere
wasn't smiling anymore. I coul
st become
he night was over, I'd meet the man who was supposed to become my mate. The man who would one day sta
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