Kael The weight lifts off me the instant she says it, and I would give anything, my pack, my name, the breath in my body, to have it crush me back down instead, because a free man can watch and a pinned one cannot, and I do not want to be free for this."No." I get my feet under me. "Aria. No. We did not come here for you to walk into a cage. Take me, take me instead, you old horror, you want a silver, his blood runs in my son, take me and let her go.""You have no silver in you, Alpha, only courage, and I have all the courage I need caged already."The Pale does not even look at me. He is looking at her, only at her, the way a man looks at water after a long thirst."Your son carries a spark of it, yes. But a spark must be raised to a flame in fifteen years, and I am too old to wait. She is the deep blood, grown and whole and standing. She is the one I have crossed three centuries for."Now, at last, his white
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