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Chapter 64 - Us

🩋ALTHEA

The wolf with the baby turned, eyes wide with shock as she saw the blood blooming across my dress. For a heartbeat, she froze.

"There's no time," I hissed through clenched teeth, shoving her backward with my shoulder. "Move."

She did.

The nightmare came at me again, feral and enraged, but something in me had already shifted.

The pain did not recede, it hid to bend to the will of the adrenaline coursing through my veins. I would feel it all fully later. Probably when chains would adorn my hand and feet when Hollowhowl had me back. 

A hum began beneath my skin, low and insistent, vibrating through my bones like a second pulse. My vision narrowed, then fractured—brief flashes overlaying the present. Blood-soaked stone. Screams echoing off walls. Hands pinning me down. Teeth sinking in. Chaos, old and familiar, rising up to meet the new.

And in the anarchy of it all, I had no choice but to welcome it. 

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