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Chapter 34

Author: Lydia
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-18 10:11:00

Jude’s POV

I woke to the quiet pulse of my encrypted phone buzzing on the nightstand.

The sky outside was still painted in bruised blue, morning barely rising. I blinked the sleep from my eyes, mind slow to realign. My body ached—the aftershock of feeding too late, too fast. My fangs throbbed. My throat was dry.

But the notification was insistent.

I turned to the screen.

[1 Secure Message: Xalor]

I sat up instantly.

My fingers danced across the lock rune. The phone opened.

Three image attachments. No text. Just GPS data embedded deep in the encrypted code.

I frowned.

Three estates. All high-end. Each one hidden, rural, far off the map. Each one protected by spell-veiled sigils and private roads. I recognized at least one of them as an old outpost from the Northern Dominion—long abandoned.

The second one… It looked new. Built in human style, but the architecture whisper

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