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Chapter Twenty-Six

Author: Constantine D KNG
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-29 01:51:35

Echoes Beneath the Concrete

Josh’s POV

The city pressed against my skin like a second heartbeat, too loud and too restless. I moved through it like a shadow, boots scuffing along sidewalks etched with a thousand years of grime and silence. The wolves here walked fast, heads down, blind to the tremors beneath their feet.

But I felt them.

Rissa wasn’t in the city. I’d been sure of that for days now. But her absence echoed louder than any presence could. The bond wasn’t like a thread anymore; it was a siren that screamed in my blood when I stood too still.

I crossed under the flickering halo of a broken streetlight, turned down an alley that stank of piss and static magic, and made my way to the lower district, the kind of place where secrets rotted slower than bodies.

The bar was called Hollow End, though there was nothing hollow about it except the clientele. Wolves who’d lost their way, or pretended they had. I pushed through the door, smoke curling against the dim yellow light. A few
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