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Shadow in the bright light
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Three weeks had passed...
Isabella looked so tiny, hooked up to the monitors, her huge personality muted...
Shadow never left her side. He was wearing borrowed clothes from someone who stopped by, but the faces were all a blur at this point. Dragging his hands along his stubble, Shadow looked on with red-rimmed eyes at his helpless mate, praying she would just wake up.
Once the news spread of the Romano's resurrection from the dead, old pack members that remembered when the family were the pack Beta's started coming by to pay their respects, and the young Alpha was amazed at how many lives little Izzy Romano ha
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