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Chapter Sixty-Nine The Dogs Were Already Inside 

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Antonioni's POV

They always think the hunt begins when they show up. That’s their first mistake.

I was watching them four days before the first boot touched my fence line. Four days. Four beautiful, arrogant, pitiful days.

They think they move like ghosts. Like legends.

But shadows don’t own silence. I do. I'm not just a shadow, I'm the SHADOW KING.

I sat above it all, deep in the Observatory, behind a glass screen so black it drank the light. Six monitors. Eighteen cameras.

My fingers hovered
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