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Chapter 18. The woman in the mirror
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☉ELDARIEN Thunder boomed ahead, as potent as the sudden tension radiating between us. If he was expecting to provoke me, well, that didn't work. I just stared at him with narrowed eyes as he hurled out as many hurtful things as he could. Then he was heaving, glaring at me like he wasn't sure who to focus his anger on. “You could help me have my revenge,” He snarled. “But I won't bother asking, because you won't. One would think you were part of the Eldermagyn, yourself.” He brushed past me, prowling through the ruins of his pack. I stared ahead, feeling the slow rage simmering under my skin. No, my rage wasn't directed at him. But at the Eldermagyn, because I have hated them for so long. I breathe, eat, and sleep imagining how it would feel to drain the life out of the ageless witch and flay her council of werewolves alive. Lorthian was in deep grief, I could excuse his behavior. A severed mate bond was a terrible thing. Many werewolves never survived the pain. But he would
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