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CHAPTER 70 - The Traitor's Revelation

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We had ninety minutes before the vote when Magistrate Winters was murdered.

Not discreetly. Not hidden. Her body was displayed in the center of the Council chamber, throat torn out, her ancient records scattered and burning around her corpse.

Through our fragile three-body connection, we felt the horror rippling through every wolf in the territory. Magistrate Winters had been the key—her evidence was supposed to prove the crimes we were voting on. Without her testimony and records, the entire a
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