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Chapter 98

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Serena

I found out the traitor was gone before sunrise. His room was open, sheets thrown back, window wide enough for a man to crawl through. The lamp still burned. The coffee on the table hadn’t gone cold yet. I stood in the doorway and waited for my anger to come. It didn’t.

The guard beside me kept repeating that he’d checked the hall an hour ago. He swore the door was locked then. I looked at him once, and he stopped talking.

Selara stirred under my skin. He runs to the sound of his own name, she said. They always do.

She was right. He wasn’t hiding; he was returning to whoever had called him.

I turned away. No shouting, no panic. Just a list forming in my head what I needed to know, who I could still trust, how much time before the next strike. I barely made it halfway down the corridor before another guard came running, breath breaking against his words.

“The Alpha he’s awake.”

Everything in me stopped for a second. Then everything started again, faster.

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