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Chapter 169

Author: Iamfide
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Elara's POV

The name on the note stared back at me like a ghost from the past. Kieran. There was something about it that set me off. Was the veiled sight reacting to the name?

My pulse pounded in my ears like I had been running some kind of marathon. I tried to concentrate on the way I was reacting to this but I came up blank.

What was it with this name?

I had never met him, and the name looked as foreign to me as a language I had no idea even existed. But judging from their faces, they knew who he was.

“Mind telling me who this Kieran guy is?” I asked holding up the paper to them. “I've never heard of him before but for him to get you in this mood, he must mean something.”

Despite the turmoil going on inside me, I had opted for casual tone to avoid getting them any more agitated.

Lora nodded like she knew who this guy was. Was I the only one who didn't know him? I came to this pack before her yet she seemed know more than I ever did.

But my guess was Michael had filled her in on who
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