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Chapter 23

Author: Mr Donch
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-17 14:46:42

The dawn broke slow over Shadowpine, the sky streaked with soft pinks and greys, like the world itself was hesitant to wake after the chaos of the night before. The Hollow was still heavy with silence, the kind that presses down on your chest and makes you catch your breath.

I stood at the edge of the clearing, watching as the pack gathered, tired faces, bruised bodies, eyes that held stories of pain and survival. Some were nursing wounds, others just stood, lost in thought. The air smelled of smoke and earth, and the heavy scent of loss lingered like a shadow no sunlight could chase away.

Kade came up beside me, his usual armor of discipline softened by exhaustion. He didn’t say much, just let his presence settle next to mine. For a long moment, we stood like that, two halves of something broken but still whole enough to fight.

“I keep replaying it,” I finally said, voice low. “The fight. How fast it spiraled out of control.”

He nodded. “It’s the price we pay when old laws and new t
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