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Chapter 41

Author: Anna R. Case
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

I do not know how much time passed as I struggled to come back from the void, and my life was like fragmented shards of awareness, pain, fear, comfort. But what remained constant was the presence of my mates. Even when my basic senses failed me, I could feel my grey wolf and my dark wolf inside me in a way that defied reason and logic. Even in the nothingness, between awake and asleep, life and death, they were there with me, so I was not alone. And when my vision faded, I could still smell their scents at my side, I could hear their beating hearts, and they spoke to me with more than just words.

We connected on both this plane of existence, and the next it seemed, my mates anchoring me to this world, and keeping me from crossing over to the spirit world entirely. My body hovered that thin line between life and death as I had lost too much blood, but my mates would not allow me to go. Neither would my wolf, even when my human heart threatened to give out, when it sputtered and I did
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