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Chapter 82

Author: Angy
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Ava's pov

I gasped, clutching my chest as a new presence surged through me—something ancient, something powerful.

A voice, soft yet commanding, whispered through my mind.

“Finally, I'm fully aware now.”

My breath hitched at the sound of the familiar voice.

Aria.

A wave of memories flooded me, it was so sudden and overwhelming that I staggered backward. Xander was quick to catch me as concern flashed in his eyes

“Ava? What’s wrong?”

I couldn’t answer.

Because I was seeing everything.

Flashes of a past life.

A war. Bloodshed.

A woman—me, but not me—standing beside a man with stormy gray eyes.

Xander.

We had been here before just like the keeper said.

We had fought before.

And we had died before.

A choked sob escaped me as the memories slammed into me, one after another. I saw myself standing on a battlefield, flames licking at the sky, the air filled with ashes, screams of agony filling the air.

I saw Xander—no, not Xander, but the man he had been—fighting beside me.

I saw our deaths.

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