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CHAPTER 26

Author: Priscilla
last update publish date: 2026-04-12 12:05:02
ELENA'S POV

Seraphine didn't answer immediately.

That was the answer.

"How long?" I said.

She set down the text she was holding. "I suspected from the beginning. The bloodline doesn't simply appear fully dormant in one generation without a carrier in the generation before it. Someone had to pass it to you. Someone close enough that the dormancy was nearly complete but not quite." She held my gaze. "I didn't know she was alive. I knew someone in your direct line had to exist or have exist
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