Chapter 30
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Larson’s stern voice sapped through the bracion, making my priden race. He stood at the dear, fully cial in armor, his owed glinting in the dim light. Its sharp founires were set his impression unvielding in he varned to fare.
“Jessica” he said, his voice low and commanding, ““don’t open this door. No matter what happens, no matter what you hear. Do you understand?”
I could only had my words mack in my throat. The chases uude was deafaring–clanging toel, feral gros, screws that pierced the night. It was a war, and was kicked away like samne
fragedell in a gedrage
Larson rosed the mom, hit heavy boots echoing against the wonder. His hands rapped my li
“Pranime, Jesica,” he said, his moce breaking ever in slightly
1-1 pronos” I whispered my voice trembling!
lips brushed agatat my f
forehead – fleeting, demperai ar kitu.
“I love you,” he murmured, his words a fragile tether holding mysandy@gpither
Love you to replied, clinging is him he was my Kline ||
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lors, his eyes blazing with an intershy that hochdrighted and reassured me.]
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this words were chat Durlopen the door
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And then, and that from my blood–a handjogging the doorknob,
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The banging grew louder, more forestal. Splinters (len as the doorframe groaned under the mandi,
And then it shattered]
Standing in the doorway was Emily. My hourt tank. Meeting an enemy would have been easter than facing her. Her smile wovenconota, her eyes glowning rith a twostedstidation |
“Why, bells, Luna fisica” the dried harvoice mocking
I backed away instinctively, but my test wis cut short by the cold, unyielding wall behind me.|||
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“You don’t deserve any of the hissed, her voice dripping with bitterness. “Tarson, the title, the power–you’re stolen är all
delt ask for any of thin” cried, desperation lacing my wards||
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and her grip only tightened.
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Summoning courage from the depths of my fear, shoved her away with all the strength could
tay hack I shouned, holding the knife with trembẳng hands,
Emily’s smile faltered, but she stepped forward, undeterred]
“You think you can scare me with that?” she forging an me
The fightduny, desperate. I swung wildly, the blade carding her hand. She screamed, recoiling in pain.
Heat a blur of chaos–sing pack members, crying children, the metal steach of blood thick in the air.]]
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metalle stenchvar blood thick in the air]]
Emily’s voire rang out behind me, venomous and unrekening. “You can’t pun from me, frustrat“||
Bu 1 wasn’t just rarming from her was running award something–or someone
Myles burned abshed award the open door. The raldnight air hit me like a slag, but I didn’t stapl
Then happened
My body sired, a foreignergy urging though me. Pain rippled din my spine as my hard wedi claws. Sy breath turned into guttural growth |
Hello my knees, onching in horror as my body synsformed. My senses sharpened. slon heightened. The sound of the battlefield became clear, dram
Screams erupted around me as stepped in the fray my newfound power forting an unstoppable Jury. Cremes fell before mu dheir men (lenced by my nawaga strength||
The war ended as abruptly it began. The enemy pack rewed their palpable,
And then, just as sadderly, it win over ||]
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The dealine drained from my body, and collapsed in the ground. My human form returned and with it camechomion]
Theard Larson’s vice, dues and frantic calling my name
