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Chapter Eighty-One - Mourning

Ella's POV

The news hit me like a warhammer straight to the chest, forcing the air from my lungs in a painful rush. For endless moments I could only stare blankly at Luna, desperately willing her words to morph into something, anything else.

But the grim sorrow etched into the lines of her beloved face did not change. The awful truth could not be undone.

"Dead?" I finally choked out in a ruined whisper. "But how...he was supposed to be safe, far from the battle..."

Even as denial and confusion spilled from my lips, memories flashed through my mind with awful clarity - the Alpha bravely leading our forces into what had proved a bloody ambush, the savagery of the fight described by those who had survived River's trap. I recalled now with sinking dread that Brian had never returned with the rest of our battered warriors. But like a naive fool I had allowed myself to believe, to hope...

Luna reached out as if to embrace me, her own eyes shining with tears. "Oh child, I prayed to shield
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