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Chapter 537 The Lake Again, but Wrong This Time

Author: Judith GW
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-25 14:16:24

Elliott

I’m not superstitious.

I mean, I was raised by wolves, literally, but still.

I believe in sharp teeth and instincts. In wind shifts and silent signals. In the way a pack moves like one body when the air changes.

I believe in natural magic and the strength that comes from belonging to a family.

I’ve seen some shit in the last few years, but this forest?

This place doesn’t run on instinct.

It runs on intention.

And today, that intention wants us looking at the lake. Screw what we want.

It appears just past a cluster of split birch trees, nestled like a secret between sloping banks and creeping vines.

The surface is so still it doesn’t look like water. More like black glass, stretched thin over something bottomless.

It’s creepy as hell and I want to get as far away from it as possible.

Scarlett’s the one who sees it first. She stops hard, arm shooting out to halt the rest of us.

“Oh,” she says. Just that. Quiet and tight. Like she recognizes it and doesn’t like it.

Erik follows h
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