Page 106 of Falcon

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He groaned.

“Diaz went down,” I said.“I get animated dragons.”

Kane laughed, low and warm beside me.

I bent and scooped Riley up onto my hip.“Dragons it is,” I said.

The war wasn’t over, not really.There would always be another Diaz somewhere.Another war.But this battle?We’d won.

I wasn’t running anymore.I wasn’t hiding.

I was standing in the middle of my chosen family with leather on my shoulders and Kane’s hand in mine and a future that looked messy and loud and hard and beautiful.

Mine.

Ours.

Chosen.

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