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CHAPTER 135
~Jade's POV~
Isadora faltered. "I… I was scar…" she said in a low voice, frightened by my mates' presence.
"It's because of me," Ziva said.
Every head in the clearing turned toward her at once.
She swallowed once, then gently released Isadora's arm and stepped forward on her own, closing the distance by three deliberate steps.
Xade's aura surged immediately. "Not another step forward."
Ziva stopped. She looked at him with a calm that was not the absence of fear so much as the decision to set it aside, and gave a single quiet nod. "Understood."
Then she began.
"I felt something earlier, before the games," she began. "I am a Star Elf, and we distinguish between scents in ways that most wolves cannot."
I saw Xavier's eyes twitch a little.
