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Chapter Fourteen: The Council Arrives

Author: Ash Fleming
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The Council’s army stood at our border. Hundreds of wolves. All shifted. All waiting. And at the front, seven figures in human form. Ancient. Powerful. Radiating authority that made even my cursed form want to submit.

The Old Blood Council. Finally showing themselves.

I stood at the gate with my pack behind me. Kade was at my right. Sera is at my left. The thirty Shadowguards formed a line between the enemy and us. Silent. Deadly. Ready.

“Impressive,” said the woman in the centre. She was small
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