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... have reached him if she wished—but gone in a way that severed something deeper, older, something she had clung to for centuries with a mother's stubborn, wounded faith.

The moment his gaze cut through her, flat and cold and stripped of the warmth she once remembered in him, she vanished from the chamber like a dissolving thought. She didn't step away; she wasn't pushed away. She simply ceased to be present in that moment.

And she knew why.

The situation she envisioned for ...

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