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open with sunlight, but the estate was already stirring with quiet activity. Servants moved through the halls with purpose, warriors crossed paths outside the barr

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breath. The way his eyes had locked on hers not with suspicion, but something deeper. Recognition l

circlin

ded to her presence in a way that went beyond memory. It

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dangero

between them. She had come to expose him. To

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ing between her palms. It was blooming des

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ushing off the frame and stepping closer. "Y

didn't

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need a

like you're searching fo

hand free. "That

oming Lunar Convergence a sacred event that only occurred every few y

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day?" Cl

is preparing for the Convergence. Which means half

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s an e

inted to someone he should know. But his mind refused to pl

rieving an old file sealed in wax. A file

ar

pened it in

t no longer tremble

ck. Her assignments. Disciplinary actions. And a single photo

ared at

different. S

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st

was so

to the war room, where Connor was o

room," Lu

ooked up

ow

ut quickly, leavin

on the table. "I wan

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s not

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on the rocks. And now there's a woman in th

orward. "You thi

. But I inten

al, but to serve as an aide during the Alpha's preliminary Convergence me

her arms. The council elders sat in a semicircle, their eyes stern, their

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w, watching the moon rise

sts cl

a chance to fix the one mistake th

if she

ent of mint and lavender rising from the soil around her. Her ha

is place prepare

ck of the fortress h

ye

yet. He hadn't exposed h

ion he'd shown five years ago threat

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eyes, the memory that su

ht long befo

e forest line, and Lucas silent, unreadable had gi

stunned, soaked to

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she st

fied her more