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Chapter 49 — The Wolf at the Door

Author: Chezzi
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The city pulsed under his skin like a fever that never broke.
New York wasn’t made for creatures like him; it smelled too much of iron and asphalt, too many heartbeats layered on top of one another. Every alley carried a whisper of prey, every rooftop the memory of flight. Matrix moved through it with the patience of a hunter who had already died once and learned that the only thing worse than dying was being caught living wrong.

The hunters had dropped him here with a name and a promise.

SILVER.

That was all the file said in bold at the top of the page. The rest was rumor—vampire, female, operative turned rogue, responsible for the death of Lieutenant Harker. No photos that matched the stories, no verified sightings, just a

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