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Chapter 29

Aвтор: Shan R.K
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Haden

The wind hit harder the higher I climbed.

Cold, clean. Full of pine and frost and the echo of things I didn’t say out loud. Couldn't say. My wolf snarled as his paws hit the dirt in a steady rhythm—hard, fast, brutal.

The run wasn’t for pleasure. It never was. Not since Haylee. Not since the world cracked open and bled out all the things I used to believe in. Things weren't supposed to end this way. I knew it before she left, I knew it the day Ashlyn left us.

Now it was instinct and a brown Alpha wolf that kept me going. The only way to silence the static that lived in my chest was to release myself to the wolf. He was mostly in my peripheral vision and always in the conscious parts of my head.

Hoax chose me when I was a kid and he was a little wolf we both knew we will be Alphas and I needed an Alpha gene and he needed a big host.

Many didn't know what happened or how we became shifters. For dragons it was an ancestral curse, born to them. For us it was like the wol
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