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CHAPTER 55: THE PHANTOM'S STAND

Author: Ellen Edgar
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-02-08 15:28:47

Rhiannon's POV

The female smiled, red eyes gleaming in the predawn light. "No answer? How disappointing."

She moved—not running or blurring but simply existing twenty feet closer than she'd been the moment before, as if distance meant nothing to her kind.

Every wolf took a step back, weapons trembling in suddenly uncertain hands.

"Perhaps a demonstration," she said pleasantly, her voice carrying those unsettling harmonics that made my teeth ache. "To encourage cooperation."

Her eyes swept acros
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