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Chapter Twelve — The Vow and the Afterglow

The ritual moonrise fire smoldered within me still. Days later, its heat still clung to my pores as if the gods forbade me from washing the night away.

Lucien led me through the curved hallways of the Alpha's lair, his hand locked around my wrist. He did not speak, nor did he need to. His silence...