Eclipse Of The Heart: A Second Dawn

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" Mara says, eyeing

t ti

, restless, as if they feel it too-the ghost of

and wol

ps, clattering

*

month

hrough the valley, celebrating Kael's first year as alpha. I danced, wine warm in

hed. "A

ght. My head spun, legs buckling. Kael caugh

guided me to our tent-not Kael. Cold hands. Gigg

r's stench-rotten berries and sweat. His hand

ned to stone. I screamed inside my skull,

ent reeking of wolfsbane and shame. He didn't

the truth. "I

tered the tent

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yr

ising. The hut swims back in

reaming," sh

y face. "

dried root into my palm. "C

ds me. Mara doesn't pry. She kno

streaking his tunic. "Rogues

lurches.

s blade, eyes narrowing at

thi

centing the air. "

snap, but my

softens

he hot spring, scrubbi

*

won't

Kael's face, twisted. The tribunal. His voice

was an attack-t

lpha Cedric

y my word against th

his back. "

*

y pulse races. I slip into the hall, drawn to

entrance, arms cro

one, icy under my fingertips

moves beside me, close enou

exiled me because he thought I betrayed

s. "Did you

dn't c

Jarek's knuckles b

. Simple. T

ess a hand to the movement. "I

to face him. "D

, no pity. No disgu

way. "It

ds follow me into the dark

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