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Chapter 16: Alpha

Author: IfyPen
last update publish date: 2026-03-16 23:33:26

Blade’s POV

The study had seen better nights.

Two chairs had been relocated to the far wall after he’d thrown them there.

A glass had met its end against the fireplace sometime around midnight and nobody had been brave enough to clean it up yet.

The map of Ash Creek’s surrounding territories was spread across the desk with red markings where his trackers had swept and found nothing, the growing field of red a personal insult that expanded with every report Hector brought him.

Blade paced.

He
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