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Chapter 99

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POV: Gina

They walked me out at dusk, two guards flanking me with the careful, unbothered efficiency of men handling something valuable rather than someone dangerous, which was, I decided, a mistake I intended to make them regret.

"Through here," Rourke said, gesturing toward a break in the tree line I hadn't noticed until we were nearly on top of it.

The stones rose out of the dark like they'd grown out of the ground rather than been placed.

They were smaller than the ones in the royal forest,
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