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Jamie

I sent for some of the women in the pack to help Corey clean up, though I wasn’t sure what good it would do. He looked… wrong.

Even after everything—the riots, the accusations, the execution nearly taking place—I hadn’t been prepared for the moment I saw him again.

His skin was too pale. His eyes, once warm and full of life, were now icy blue, hollow, distant. He barely looked like himself, and yet there he was, standing before me, alive when he shouldn’t have been.

I had spent two weeks grieving my brother, believing he was gone forever, and now he was back—but different. Not just in the way he looked, but in the way he spoke.

And what he said…

I ran a hand down my face, trying to push through the chaos in my head as I was about to enter my office.

Amara entered first.

She stood near my desk with her arms wrapped tightly around herself, fingers clutching at her sleeves as if they were the only thing keeping her upright. Her entire body was tense, her expression drawn and distan
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