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Chapter 36 - Dravenmere Elders

~Alaric's POV~

The clock ticked, Its hands mocked me with every drag of the second.

I paced the length of my room again, bare feet heavy against the floor, my gaze kept finding the wall clock... 9 a.m. already and still, no Tazira.

She had left last night, said she was meeting her mother and would be back soon. But the night bled into dawn, and the dawn now into morning, and nothing.

I had called her number through the long hours of the night until the battery of my own phone begged mercy. Always the same response: switched off. At last, I called her mother.

Her mother's voice had been calm, almost too calm. "Something came up and she will be home very early in the morning. Don't worry, Alaric."

But the morning had arrived, and the house remained empty of her presence.

My wolf prowled inside me, agitated. Every creak in the hall, every passing voice of guards, made me look toward the door. Then, a sudden knock rattled through the silence.

"Come in," I said sharply.

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