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Chapter 26

Author: Shan R.K
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-29 04:13:44
Ashlyn

Back at the precinct, the walls buzzed with the quiet hum of fluorescent lights and unease. Even after all these years there was something about the sterile echo of paper shuffling and cop radios mumbling through static that always made me itch.

I filed the paperwork like I was signing off on a dream I hadn’t meant to have. The panther shifter who was barely out of her teens sat locked in holding, her eyes the color of fallen stars. She didn’t scream, didn’t shift, didn’t threaten to maul me like some of the others, Just sat there and stared like she already knew how this story ended.

I didn't like this part of the job but when Chase and I ended up ditching New Oaks shitty routines and laws we had only two choices, one was go to New York and solve crimes or join another pack. I was not joining another fucking pack.

the Lowry pack was the only pack I would've considered had grandma not already lived there. So I joined the human fight and Chase and I studied Law. He loved i
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    Hey guys. I noticed chapter reads have slowed down on How to catch a mate. Please read it, and share it with your friends as the books success will dwindle and I will have to complete the story sooner rather than later. I want to write but I also want to write things people want to read or else what's the purpose? so show your support.

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