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Chapter Seven — The Hunter

Auteur: Char Writes
last update Date de publication: 2026-03-26 19:50:54

The wolf did not back down.

Tyra pressed her palm flat against the cold glass and watched from her window as it held its ground in the middle of the dark street below. Every hair on its body raised. That low growl rolling out of it like thunder that had not broken yet.

The man at the mouth of the alley had not moved.

He was tall. Lean in the way that meant nothing soft had survived long enough to stay. Dark clothes that sat on him like a second skin. A face she could not fully make out from two
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