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The steps outside were heavy. The steps sounded like boots not like the paws they had heard earlier.

Kael’s head snapped toward the shattered window. He moved without a sound, one second beside me, the next swallowed by shadow behind a broken pillar. His eyes burned faint and gold from the dark, a warning that I understood to mean, not to give away his location.

I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand, tasting iron. The floor was a mess, blood pooled under the dead rogues, slicking the warped boards. Shards of glass glittered like frost. My shoulder throbbed where teeth had found their mark. My wolf paced impatiently back and forth, she was furious that there was distance between her us and Kael.

The chapel door scraped across the floorboards.

A lantern’s glow cut a slice across the shadowed aisle.

“Thornridge business,” a voice called, smooth and thin. “If anyone’s inside, step out where I can see you.”

It was Bran.

Of course.

He came in first, lifting the lantern, the shadows shif
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