The Forsaken Luna: The Alpha Redemption

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ward the waiting Elders as Ka

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voice cracked

hamber-disgust, disbelief. No

aid coldly. "Your fate shall b

beneath

burst to life around me,

declared. "If you are innocent, the fire

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my ribs. There was no tim

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warriors poured into the chamb

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forward like

rowled, voice low and dead

tess paled ben

act of war

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widened. "

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my arm-but the boy slipped

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down, forcing the k

me, her face t

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