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CHAPTER 216
~Davion's POV~
I was shocked when I heard him mention the name Valerie.
Not the surname—just the first name—but that alone was enough to freeze the blood in my veins.
Memories rushed in like a flood, cracking through the mental vault I had sealed them behind. Memories I hadn't dared revisit in years.
Not since the last time I saw that child.
It reminded me of her mother.
Zara Gold.
The first time I met her, she stormed the gates of my fortress, not for glory, not for power, but for her then ex-husband, Snow Zephyr.
She came to plead his life—one she felt was unjustly claimed by the hands of her enemy with the Lycan King, Kaid, accompanying her.
Fierce, wild, desperate. She passed all my trials to obtain my golden scale, the only way to save Snow's life.