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Chapter 42: PACKLESS

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The air smelled like rust and pine sap. Thick with storm tension, the kind that made the hair on your arms rise before the clouds ever broke. Emilia stood at the edge of the old clearing, boots caked in the mud of a rain that hadn’t yet fallen. Her fingers twitched at her sides.

Not from fear.

From something older.

Something wild.

The rogues came from the trees like ghosts. First one, then two, then more—slipping between branches and roots, bare-footed or wrapped in torn leathers, their eyes rimmed red or glowing faintly under the dark. Some had claws. Some had scars where claws used to be. None of them spoke at first.

But they circled her.

They always did now.

Emilia didn’t ask them to. She didn’t command them. But it happened. Every time she stepped into the woods, something called to them. Some scent beneath her skin. Some rhythm in her blood.

Alpha.

That was the word whispered when they lowered their heads. When they knelt in the leaves and exposed their throats.

She’d heard it fi
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