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Chapter 48: The Fall of the Hollow Alpha
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2026-10-15 05:59:00
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One Night,One Claim Chapter 52: The Weeping Falls
Kael’s POVI smelled them before I saw them.Wet wolf and old frost, and under it a sour, rotting sweetness that made my skin crawl. I held up a fist, and two hundred wolves went still behind me.The Weeping Falls dropped off the cliff ahead in a single silver ribbon, three hundred feet of white water thundering into a black pool. Mist drifted up in cold sheets. Behind the curtain of the falls, if Valeria was right, a cavern waited, the door Aislin Stormborn had built twenty-three years ago for children she was afraid she would never see again.“They’re in the trees,” I said. “Left and right. Thirty, maybe forty.”Dax came up beside me, broadsword already out. “Kai?”“No.” I tasted the air. “Vero.”His jaw tightened. Elara had told us what Thorne’s message said. Seventeen wolves had run north with the Hollow Alpha. Some of them must have turned back.“Take the left flank,” I said. “I’ll take the right. Don’
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One Night,One Claim Chapter 48: The Fall of the Hollow Alpha
Thorne’s POVThe Blackthorn valley had been quiet for eleven days, and I hated every minute of it.Quiet meant the wounded were healing. Quiet meant Rowan had finally stopped waking at night with her claws out. Quiet meant the pack had gone back to counting loaves and mending roofs and burying what we could find of the dead.It also meant we all had time to think about the man who used to be our alpha.I stood on the lodge porch at dawn, a mug of Liora’s bitter tea going cold in my hand, and watched the northern ridge. Behind me the great hall hummed with the low voices of a council that had met every night since Kai walked out of the valley. Garrick wanted to wait. Jaren wanted to hunt. Mira had spent days in the archive hunting for a precedent for a pack with no alpha.I had been avoiding the real question. Everyone had.“You’re doing it again,” said a voice at my elbow.Rowan leaned against the porch post, auburn
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