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Chapter 123: The Lies We Tell

Author: Nancy's Best
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REED’S POV

I walked away from Seraphine, my heart a tangled mess of regret and resignation. The words I had spoken to her lingered in the air like a curse, suffocating, inescapable.

“I’m going to die.”

I had said it as a statement, as a truth. But I hadn’t meant for Eliana to hear it.

The moment I stepped out from Seraphine’s side, I felt it—a sudden shift in the air, the faintest rustle of wind that shouldn’t have been there. Then, a blur of movement, too fast, too sharp, slicing through the night like a phantom.

I knew her scent before I even saw her.

Eliana.

She moved like lighting, her form barely visible as she streamed away from the house, disappearing into the dense treeline beyond. A rush of panic slammed into my chest. She had heard me. She knew.

Damn it.

I took off after her, my legs burning with the effort to close the distance. But she was fast—faster than any wolf I had ever seen. Her blood, her lineage… she wasn’t meant to be ordinary. She was the first of her kind,
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