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I didn’t breathe for a second too long. I couldn't move, blink or even think.
Her name cracked open inside me like a lightning bolt through my ribs. And hell! I swear I could feel the thunder roll in its wake, rumbling through my bones.
She stood there, framed in shadows and silver moonlight from the moon, like a dream I wasn’t meant to have again. My knees hit the ground before I realized they were bending. My hands were trembling, stupid and useless at my sides. My wolf clawed beneath my skin, tail tucked, ears pinned, whimpering with a desperate ache that I hadn’t known could still live in me.
“Elora…” I breathed. It came out as a prayer, hoarse and cracked like an old song forgotten in the wind. “Is it really you?”
She tilted her head and smiled, but it wasn’t the smile I reme
