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Chapter 154 – Weathering Storms

Penulis: Quinn Montclair
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Ronan

The first report arrives shortly after dawn.

Jace slides the parchment across the table without a word. His expression is carved from stone, shoulders tense, jaw locked. I scan the ink quickly, eyes narrowing at the name that appears halfway down the page.

Silvercrest.

Our spy makes it clear nobody’s directly confirmed they’re behind everything, but the shape of it is there. Edges too sharp to be coincidence.

A missing shipment of arms from a pack in the northeast that was suddenly rerouted half-way. A skirmish near the pass with an unknown group, wearing wolf insignia no one claims. Paid mercenaries sniffing near Redmaw territory and asking too many questions about Blackthorn’s defenses and how deep Redmaw’s hatred for us runs.

The timing is too suspicious and the only other pack with the kind of power to make waves this choppy, is us.

Alaric’s reaching. Testing my defenses. The carrot didn’t work, so he’s going to try the stick next.

My wolf growls low in my chest, pacing behi
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