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Episode 18

作者: MICHEAL X
last update 最終更新日: 2025-06-30 21:41:14

The first explosion comes just before midnight.

I'm lying awake—I'm always lying awake these nights—when the world outside our bedroom window erupts in fire and screaming. The glass shatters inward before I can react, tiny shards catching in my hair like cruel stars. Arthur is moving before the echo fades, his body between me and the window before I've even registered the danger.

"Wolfsbane," he snarls, nostrils flaring at the bitter smoke curling through the broken window.

The second explosion rocks the foundation. Somewhere below us, alarms should be blaring. They're silent.

Arthur's eyes flash gold in the dark. "Reid." Just a name. Just a death sentence.

We move through corridors thick with smoke and the coppery scent of fresh blood. Wolves in various states of shift sprint past us—some bleeding, some carrying the wounded. The fortress that's been my gilded prison for months is coming apart at the seams.

Reid appears at the end of the hall, his usually impeccable shirt
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