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The Night Inferno Took the Reins

last update publish date: 2026-01-15 04:00:55

Alejandro’s POV

The arrivals stopped feeling like coincidence three hours before midnight. That was the moment the Haven went quiet in the wrong way.

Not the lived-in quiet, the kind that settled after shared meals and low conversation, when Zenith moved through the villa barefoot and humming softly, when the wards breathed instead of bristled. This was anticipatory and predatory. Even Inferno felt it first.

They are circling, he said inside me, voice low, ancient, carrying the weight of hunt
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