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Chapter 5

Author: Geese
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The study door burst open.

Leon stumbled in, practically crawling. "Alpha! This is terrible! Seraphina escaped!"

"What?" Axel shot to his feet, his chair toppling over. "We had all those guards. How could they lose one half-dead she-wolf?"

"She... She faked unconsciousness!" Leon cried out. "After we drained her blood, she knocked out the nurse, stole medicine, and jumped out the window! She must have been planning this the whole time! She's fleeing from justice, Alpha!"

"Fleeing from justice... Good. Very good." A storm of rage swirled in Axel's eyes.

He had actually been considering sneaking down to see her in the middle of the night after she got her blood drawn. He would bring her some proper medicine. After all, she had looked so weak.

However, now he learned that she had fled?

She had made use of his moment of softness and betrayed him yet again?

"Issue the order!" Axel's voice turned as cold as ice. "Lock down the entire territory! Send out the highe
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