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Chapter 165
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2021-09-21 20:38:51Deidre
I breathed in, calming the drumming of my heart, its relentless beating against my chest. This was the closest I had been to my daughter in years.
I gazed down at her, soaking in the sight of her petite body, her beautiful silver waves spread on the infirmary pillow beneath her. Her tiny form was tucked under the blanket. I had prayed so hard to that the Goddess back at the infirmary that she didn’t have serious injuries or head trauma that I didn’t give myself a moment to consider who my patient really was. But now?
Now, I wanted nothing more than to see her open her eyes, an echo of her father in their depths.
I had craved the rare cases in which we were in the same room; when Perrin had brought the twins into the Alpha Suite. When we had sat together for form
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