Rejected & Reckoning: Twin Flames

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d wilds I once knew. It smelled of smoke and stone and hurried foot

cages, all for the sake of the twins. Theron and Caelen needed safe

ow many shadows I melted into, the echoes of my

lat, the chill of the night seeping through my thin shawl. The twins sle

he night before echoed in my mind.

did h

fled truly be c

me from my thoughts-a

, heart pounding

n shadow. His eyes, storm-gray and piercing, locke

en D

he man who had humiliated me, rejected

blinked. But I knew, some

east, h

y feet felt rooted, and my wolf-the fierce, silent

silence cracked

burned with

ger? Regr

dn't

the storm bre

ut Kaelen's sh

istance-watching, waiting. Not th

blurred in the rain, I found a small

not hide

lanation. Just those

, fear and hope t

e sen

arning...

n hung low and silver a

he twins' small hands clutching mine,

, but the str

sper of the

elen's eyes burning bright as f

spered on the breeze, ca

ords echoing inside me l

o had once broken me...

stirred with their

strange symbols in his sleep, his br

his voice barely above a whis

visions had become mor

his ears and looked around nervously,

d quietly, eyes wide. "It's

lk between keeping the twins

wer questions with lies, to bury the pa

ed on the altar still lived

trength to face Ka

of our betrayal te

atched me fro

ha, Kaelen's cunning cousi

m even the coldest hearts, and I sense

another weapon in the

fire of conflict was al

mall shop where I had found tem

sar

h name on his lips s

anding at the edge of the street, ey

asked quietly, but his gaze h

suddenly sma

rs-only the bu

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