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Chapter Twenty – The Hunt Begins

The forest was heavy with silence, the kind that draped over everything like a warning.

Caius crouched near a creek bed, inhaling deeply. There—faint, almost lost beneath the cold earth and moss—her. Eira’s scent. He hadn’t imagined it. His fingers dug into the soil.

“She was here,” he murmured.

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