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CHAPTER 147
~Valerie's POV~
I stood there for a moment, hand gripping the dorm handle.
My heart hadn't stopped racing from Dristan's too-good reveal, from Riven's suspicion and from the truth I was burying beneath lies and half-smiles.
But I'd barely made it back, and now I had bigger problems because Riven Alucard, the Vice of Vice, knew my name and that was almost as dangerous as the truth I carried.
I swear, Solstice gonna kill me.
"That's only if you tell her, right?" Astra purred within me. "What she doesn't know won't hurt her."
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The world shimmered in soft gold, bleeding into pink as twilight cloaked everything in magic.
I stood barefoot in the centre of an expansive marble terrace, surrounded by shadows—but not the kind that frightened. These were warm, familiar, like a presence.
No… it was all six of them.
I turned—and they emerged from the shadows one by one, taking their usual form.