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178 The Cost of Mercy

Penulis: Karima Sa'ad Usman
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-26 18:41:22

Carson

I stepped back into the wreckage, into the scent of scorched blood and grief. The night hung heavy with smoke and sorrow, the air thick with the echoes of what the Strigoi had done.

Cainebrille—neutral grounds—violated again.

Twice now they had broken the accords, crossed sacred boundaries with their cold arrogance and crimson thirst. This was no longer provocation. It was war.

Martina would pay.

Dimitri, too. His silence reeked of complicity. No one under his banner moved without his permission. If he didn’t send them, then he had let them go.

I scanned the courtyard, my chest hollowing at the sight.

Bodies lay scattered—my wolves, my warriors. Men and women who had pledged their lives to me. Some still breathed, their chests heaving in pain. Others... didn’t.

One knelt beside his fallen friend, howling low and mournfully into the bloodstained ground. Another pressed trembling fingers to a comrade’s cooling throat, whispering words I couldn’t hear.

I swallowed hard. This wasn’
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