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Chapter 44
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2026-05-05 19:00:36The Blood of the Mountain
POV: General Vesh (Elara Vance)
Mate.
The word hung in the freezing, rain-swept air of the training yard, heavier than the iron armor strapped to my chest. Kaelen had dropped his wooden sword into the churning mud. He had laid his pride, his Alpha dominance, and his very life bare at my boots, refusing to strike the woman he had finally recognized beneath the terrifying facade of the Warlord.
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