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Chapter 39 - Goddess?

𝐀𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐀 

The ache was bone-deep, my muscles throbbing. Strangely, I found myself unafraid because I could feel the flesh of my torn throat knitting and mending. With every ebb of my sore muscles, the pain dissipated, one beat at a time. My simmering marrow cooled with every breath. The Core was healing me.

​Still, I knew that I would be haunted by what I had witnessed and experienced. The hazardous state of a pack house, the bodies, the carnage, and the strange woman who seemed to recognize me—yet called me by another name. Something I could only presume was a serial number. Forgetting the letters and numbers was not a risk; they had been etched into my psyche just like the rest of the day's events.

​Cheese whined where he rested beneath my calm, reminding me that he was here for me. I smiled, even if it elicited odd flashes of pain. I wished I could tell him, "I know."

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