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Chapter 39

Author: Aurora
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The Malibu property looked exactly like what it was trying to look like: a retreat.

Low, modern buildings connected by walkways, overlooking the ocean. The kind of place that communicated safety through architecture, warm lighting and open spaces and the sound of water. Noah recognized the design intelligence in it. Caine hadn't built a compound. He'd built something that felt like an exhale.

He and Christopher had arrived separately, Noah using his father's credentials as a framework for a rou
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  • All wolves university: The Last Kitsune   Chapter 39

    The Malibu property looked exactly like what it was trying to look like: a retreat.Low, modern buildings connected by walkways, overlooking the ocean. The kind of place that communicated safety through architecture, warm lighting and open spaces and the sound of water. Noah recognized the design intelligence in it. Caine hadn't built a compound. He'd built something that felt like an exhale.He and Christopher had arrived separately, Noah using his father's credentials as a framework for a routine hunter perimeter check, Christopher with a cover story about a real estate inquiry that was thin but plausible."I hate this," Christopher murmured as they walked toward the main building. He said it without drama, just statement of fact."You asked to help," Noah said."I know. I still hate it." Christopher glanced sideways. "Is Yuna watching somehow?""No. She's on campus." Noah scanned the property as they walked. Six people visible outside. Probably more within. None of them looked dist

  • All wolves university: The Last Kitsune   Chapter 38

    Grace was twenty four and she had her sister's face without her sister's impulsiveness.She was waiting at Andrew Phillips's estate when they arrived, sitting in the kitchen with a mug she wasn't drinking from, her eyes showing the particular exhaustion of someone who had been frightened for a long time and was very close to the end of their ability to manage it.She looked up when Yuna walked in and something in her expression collapsed with relief, just briefly, before she composed it."Thank you for coming," Grace said.Yuna sat across from her. "Tell me what happened.""Sophie and I have been staying with Patrick in Los Angeles. It's been good. Stable." Grace wrapped both hands around the mug. "Three days ago, Sophie got a call. She didn't tell me who from, but she was different afterward. Quieter. Thinking about something she wasn't saying.""Caine's person," Yuna said."I think so. Yes." Grace stared at the table. "Then yesterday Tyler showed up at Patrick's. Said he'd been in c

  • All wolves university: The Last Kitsune   Chapter 37

    The council building was downtown, on a street that looked unremarkable from the outside because it was designed to.Noah drove. Camille had offered to come but Yuna declined, partly because this needed to be a small, focused meeting and partly because she needed Camille back on campus keeping an eye on Garrett, who had been visibly absent for two days, which was somehow more unsettling than when he was present.The lobby had the cold, functional energy of a place that had been serious for a long time. A woman at the front desk checked Noah's name, glanced at Yuna with careful neutrality, and directed them to the third floor.Walter Bishop was already in the room.He was smaller than Yuna expected. People with reputations often were. A compact, white haired man with a hearing aid in his left ear and hands that shook very slightly when he stood to greet them. His face was deeply lined, not from age alone but from decades of expression, furrowed brows and squinted focus all pressed perm

  • All wolves university: The Last Kitsune   Chapter 36

    The call happened at nine on the dot.Yuna was alone in her room, Rebecca and Camille giving her the space, Noah two floors down in a study room but with his phone on and his attention pointed her direction like a compass needle.Diane answered on the second ring."Yuna." Her voice was measured. Not cold exactly, but carefully positioned. The voice of a woman who had been careful for so long it had become her default setting."Thank you for taking the call," Yuna said."Rebecca said you wanted to listen. I figured that was worth twenty minutes.""Then I'll listen."A beat of silence, and Yuna could almost hear Diane recalibrating."I've been in Durango for six years," Diane said finally. "Same apartment. Same job at the library. Same twenty minute walk every morning. I built a small life." Her voice was even but something underneath it wasn't. "I have colleagues who trust me. A neighbor who leaves me soup when she thinks I look tired. A cat named after a poet.""What's the cat's name?

  • All wolves university: The Last Kitsune   Chapter 35

    "What exactly did Caine say to them?"Yuna had pulled Rebecca into the common room at the end of the hall, which was empty at this hour. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, unhelpfully clinical.Rebecca sat on the arm of a chair, her posture tight. "He reached out through an intermediary. Someone who approached Diane in person at the coffee shop near her apartment in Colorado.""Someone who knew where she was," Yuna said."Yes. Which means he either has resources we underestimated or someone gave him the locations." Rebecca's jaw was set. "I've been going through who knew where Diane was staying. It's a short list.""You think there's someone on the inside.""I think it's possible." Rebecca looked at her carefully. "I'm not pointing fingers. I'm telling you what the facts suggest."Yuna sat down. "What was the message? Exactly.""That the Binding is a leash. That royal bloodline doesn't mean qualified leadership, it means inherited control. That Yuna Kanzaki is twenty years old, u

  • All wolves university: The Last Kitsune   Chapter 34

    Monday morning arrived grey and purposeful.They loaded the car in Margaret's clearing while she stood on the porch with her arms crossed, watching. She had spent both days putting Yuna through training that was nothing like Noah's physical combat preparation. Where Noah had taught her body, Margaret taught her attention.How to feel the Binding without being overwhelmed by it. How to project calm through the connection rather than anxiety, which apparently kitsunes in distress broadcast like a radio signal. How to recognize when something pressing against the connection was safe and when it wasn't.By Sunday evening Yuna was exhausted in a way that had nothing to do with her muscles."Three weeks," Margaret had said at dinner. "I'll be in Los Angeles in three weeks. Before then, practice daily. Even five minutes. The Binding is like a muscle. Use it or lose the strength you built.""I will.""And stay away from Garrett." Margaret had looked at her very directly. "Not because you can'

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