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Chapter Twenty: A Long Night
Vuko POV
I see the change in Silvia's eyes first, then her whole body seems to unwind from a tight coil. She sees me again! She knows me! In that moment I remember when we used to sneak out on the sweltering summer nights to swim in the lake, how the fresh, cold water would shock us into silence, then send us shivering to each other for warmth. Silvia in my arms looking at me exactly as she looks at me now. Or when she had been fighting with her teachers and you could practically see the sparks rising flying from her feet as she stormed off. I would find her and I would coax the fight out of her. I could make her laugh. I would listen. I'm the same and not the same. She's the same too, and not the same.
She has her wolf now, of course. And our wolves have never met. And then there are the scenes she just conjured out of the air as she told her story ...
But no, I think, she's still mine. Still my Silvia.
I move toward her, ready to ta
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