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CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

작가: ECHO NOIR
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DEREK'S POV.

Hope didn’t even turn to look at Hunter.

Not once. She didn't even glance in his direction, not to talk of questioning him.

Instead, her eyes stayed locked on mine, burning with anger, her fists clenched at her sides.

“I don’t need to ask him anything,” she said firmly.

Her voice echoed through the cold dungeon.

For a moment, the entire room went silent.

My jaw tightened.

“What did you just say?” I asked slowly.

Hope lifted her chin.

“You heard me. I said I don’t need to ask him, D
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    HOPE’S POV.The silence between us felt fragile after everything that happened in the tunnels. Hunter still stood near the window overlooking the dark forest beyond the castle walls, but the anger from earlier had faded now. What remained behind looked worse. Exhaustion. Real exhaustion.The kind that settled deep into someone’s bones after carrying too much for too long.I watched him carefully from where I stood beside him. His shoulders were tense beneath his shirt, and every now and then his fingers flexed slightly at his sides like he was trying to steady himself without anyone noticing.But I noticed.His eyes remained fixed on the forest outside, distant and unfocused, like part of him was still trapped somewhere inside those broken flashes from the past.“I don’t know what’s happening to me anymore,” he admitted quietly.The words hurt more than I expected, not because of what he said, but because of how lost he sounded saying it. I stepped closer slowly until I was standing d

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    HOPE'S POV. The guard looked startled too, even though I assume he should know Hunter well considering he's a pack guard. But even he seemed shocked by the pronouncement.“My King?” he asked carefully.“You heard me,” Hunter said without hesitation. “The me will be executed at sunrise. All of them.”Horror rushed through me so fast I could barely process it.“Hunter!” I said sharply.He ignored me completely and kept talking like he didn't even hear me.“They infiltrated this castle,” he continued coldly. “They attacked inside our walls. They murdered our people.”His jaw tightened hard.“For that, they die. Tomorrow.”The guard bowed quickly, though uncertainty was written all over his face.“As you command, my King.”Then he turned and hurried away as if he couldn't get away from him fast enough.I turned toward Hunter immediately.“What are you doing?”His eyes shifted to me slowly.“What needs to be done.”“No,” I said firmly. “That is not what this is.”His expression darkened i

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    HOPE'S.He walked slowly and carefully like he did not want to attract attention, and my wolf stirred instantly inside me.“Are you seeing this, Hope?”I frowned slightly as I studied the man’s back. Maybe it was just me, but somehow everything about the way he moved felt wrong.Hunter was still focused on issuing orders, surrounded by guards asking questions all at once, and digging further into the issue with the commander.I looked back toward the man again.He was already disappearing into the shadows near the lower corridor leading beneath the castle.A bad feeling crawled through me immediately and without saying anything, I stepped away from the clearing and followed him.The farther I moved from the others, the quieter everything became. The noise from the guards slowly faded behind me until all I could hear were my own footsteps and the distant sound of wind against the stone walls.The guard ahead never looked back once, and that alone made me more suspicious.From what litt

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    HOPE’S POV.The guards found nothing in the forest.That alone frightened me more than the bodies.By the time the search party returned, the night air had turned colder, and the tension hanging around the pack grounds felt thick enough to choke on. Torches burned along the edge of the clearing while warriors moved between the trees, checking the area one last time before giving up the search completely.Still nothing. Still no scent trail, still no footprints, still no broken branches.Nothing that explained how three trained patrol guards had been killed within this territory without anyone seeing or hearing a thing.I stood a few steps behind Hunter as he crouched beside one of the bodies again. His expression remained unreadable, but I had spent enough time around him now to recognize the signs.The stillness in him was never a good thing.One of the older warriors approached carefully and lowered his head before speaking.“My King,” he said, breathing hard from the search, “we co

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