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Chapter 113 - The Scroll

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CHAPTER 113

~Valerie's POV~

I gasped as the pulse rippled from the scroll again, stronger this time, like it had a heartbeat of its own, not loud but felt.

Ash's arm braced around me instinctively, his free hand held the worn parchment. The glowing symbols didn't pulse like light. They throbbed—a steady flicker, like something was alive beneath the ink.

My fingers itched to reach for it, but Ash's grip around my wrist held firm.

"Wait," he murmured. His eyes never left the scroll. "It's reacting to you."

My chest tightened. "To me?"

Ash nodded once, slowly. "It pulsed when you stepped closer. And when your necklace glowed, it did it again. Not for me. Only when you moved."

A cold whisper curled down my spine. My necklace. The one my Uncle said was just a suppressor, a limiter to my pheromones… but if it reacted to this—whatever this was—it meant the relic wasn't just suppressing my heat.

It was connecting to something older.

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