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Chapter Eighteen: The Depths of the Unknown
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The air in the cave seemed to grow colder, heavier, as if the very walls were closing in on us. I could feel the weight of Jace’s words pressing against me—the Alpha—the one behind it all. The one pulling the strings. The one who had been hunting us, manipulating our every move. And now, he was here.I tried to steady my breath, to push away the suffocating panic that threatened to overwhelm me. But the more I tried, the more my senses sharpened, and I realized that the feeling I had been trying to ignore, the one that had always been there, was growing stronger. The power inside me. The dark magic that had taken root in my soul.It was awake.I glanced at Jace, but his eyes weren’t on me. He was looking out into the night, his muscles tensed, every inch of him on edge. His hand clenched around a jagged rock beside him, his gaze fixed on the distant shadows below, searching for any sign of movement.Damon was crouched lower, his body coiled, ready to spring into action at any moment.
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