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Ayla's POV
They kept us in separate cells. Maximum security. Silver-reinforced walls that dampened magic and made my wolf whimper in pain.
Three days. Three days of interrogations, of Council members asking the same questions over and over, of everyone looking at me like I was a monster.
Three days since I'd shifted for the first time.
Three days since I'd discovered I had a twin sister who wanted to destroy me.
The Council had finally released me - not because they believed I was innocent, but because they couldn't prove I was guilty. Kira had confessed to everything, but she'd also implicated me. Said we'd planned it together. That I'd known about her existence all along.
It was the perfect trap. Even with Damien's security footage, even with witnesses who'd seen two of us, the
