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Chapter 246 - THE SHIELDING ANCHOR

Some battles are fought with swords. Others are fought in silence, with open hands and a steady heart. The deepest victories are the ones that begin with surrender."

The immediate, desperate surge of need had broken, but the silence that followed was not an ending; it was a profound, life-altering stillness. We remained pressed against the rough bark of the Silverback tree, the chill of the deep forest failing to penetrate the intense, possessive heat of our bodies.

I held Elias close, my heart my Alpha Core pounding a deep, stabilizing rhythm against his temple. His breathing had finally evened out, the ragged gasps replaced by the soft, steady puffs of a man completely spent and utterly safe. The initial, chaotic terror that had fueled his demand was gone, incinerated by the brutal proof of our physical reality. Now, we have the luxury of reclamation, the slow, deliberate act of stitching the fragmented edges of our souls back together.

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