Chapter 53: The Price

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Aurelia POV "What the…." I gasped, staring down at my arm in disbelief. Blood welled steadily from the gash, identical in size and shape to the wound I'd just watched vanish from the pup's leg. I pressed my palm against it, pain flaring sharp and immediate beneath my fingers. "That's not possible," I breathed, my voice shaking. "That's not.. how does this even…." I turned my arm slightly, examining the wound with growing horror. The edges were clean, deep, exactly the kind of injury the thorny branches had inflicted on the pup only minutes ago. Except I hadn't gone anywhere near those thorns myself. "Okay," I said aloud, mostly to steady my own racing thoughts. "Okay, think. This has to be some kind of coincidence." Except it wasn't a coincidence. I knew that, even as I tried to conv

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