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I Know that Face

Penulis: Sable Thorne
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“Kalen,” my father rasps in the memory of a voice. “Took you long enough.”

I can’t breathe. I can’t even scream. Every nightmare I ever had was softer than this. Not this. Anything but this.

“You left,” I manage. “You died.”

He coughs, a wet, rattling sound. “Everything dies. Even Nightshade Alphas.” His fingers move, clutching something close to his chest. I see it glint in the candlelight: a ring, silver and old, with our pack’s crest.

“I needed… time,” he says. “To figure out the end. Before it takes me.”

He gestures at the wall behind him, and I see it’s covered in scratches—names, dates, cycles of the moon, all written in dried blood and desperation.

“This is madness,” I whisp

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