Chapter 70 – When Attention Is Diverted

Chapter 70: Chapter 70 – When Attention Is Diverted

Elara slowly curled her fingers and focused not on the door, but on the power within herself. Because if someone was coming to take her, it was an unnecessary effort. This time, Elara knew she did not need them. This thought would have made her feel guilty before. When she felt Rowan trying to reach her through the darkness, when she felt Kael following the weakening bond, her heart would have beaten faster. Now, however, that same feeling had settled somewhere different in her chest. Somewhere colder, more calculated, and less human. Their arrival no longer felt like salvation, but like the first sound outside of the storm she had been waiting for.

Although Elara tried not to let Adrian realize what she was feeling, she knew that this was an unnecessary effort. It was not possible for only two young alphas to get in and out of here. She knew that. The Moon Spirit knew it too. But that did not make them useless. On the contrary, Rowan and Kael were exactly what she needed. Not a rescue. A distraction. A short, wild, and valuable opening for Elara to attack of her own will for the first time.

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