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Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty Eight

"Let me go!" the woman screamed. "I demand to speak to the Alpha."

The voice sounded familiar.

"Julia?"

Daemon immediately tensed.

How had she been caught trying to sneak into the pack? That was the first question on my mind. The Empresses had the gift of shifting, among other abilities-it shouldn't have been hard for her to get in. Cynthia had managed it multiple times.

She looked different too-aged, not in the usual way stress night wear someone down, but like thirty years had passed in the space of a few days.

"I need to speak to you. It's important," Julia said, eyes wide. She kept glancing over her shoulder, like she expected someone-or something-to appear out of nowhere and attack her.

"I'm not letting you in. I'm not granting you access to the pack house," Alexander replied.

"You don't understand. Do you think I'd be here if this wasn't a matter of life and death?"

him a nod.

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very room where Cynthia's body had been burned to ash. The scorch mark

too," Daemon said, his eyes hard. Moments like this reminded me that his snarky remarks were just

He was furious.

it, but

are you here?" I

here because of Aliyah.

a glance at Daemon before I asked "What

all lost favor in the sight of the god of Light. It's all because of me. I failed her. She stripped us

aged and why she'd been caught trying to sneak into the pack, but

I've seen, you've been doing a good job keeping her happy-well, aside from losing the Chosen," Daemon said, his

what you'd think and what I let

eighteen for the Encounter to take place. From the moment she turned sixteen, her body was already in perfect youth, ready for the god of Light to possess. But the others didn't share the connection I had with the goddess, so they didn't know. I lied to them. I lied because... I couldn't bear

watched you starve her,

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she was nothing but a child. I watched her grow. Since I could never have a child of my

most 'mothers' don't usually get handsy with their

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