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chapter 40

Author: Phoebe
last update publish date: 2026-06-05 21:25:24

Zara rushed out of Elder Lysara's shrine and back into the cabin she shred with Kael.

She paced the length of their bedroom, her hands clenched into fists at her sides. The weight of the elder's words pressed down on her like a mountain of stone.

Now it was just one victim, but more would soon follow. All because she had been too selfish to end it.

"I should have done it," she whispered bitterly to herself. "I should have ended my life when I planned to. None of this would be happening."

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