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Chapter 42: Blood Does Not Forget

Author: Ellis Carter
last update publish date: 2026-06-08 20:45:22

The letter remained clenched in my hand long after Alex and Lucas stopped speaking.

For several moments, the world around me seemed distant, as though I were standing behind a wall of glass, watching everything unfold from somewhere far away. The council hall, the worried faces, the sound of wolves moving outside, all of it faded beneath the weight of one impossible truth.

My brother was alive.

Not a memory.

Not a ghost.

Not a dream my heart had invented because it could not bear the loss.

Aliv
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