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Chapter 26: Thornwood Gathering

작가: Michael Moore
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Nyra’s POV

The estate looks perfect.

Too perfect.

I step out of the car and something cold slithers down my spine. Thornwood territory sprawls across manicured hills, every stone deliberately placed, every window gleaming. Beautiful. Polished. Wrong.

I feel it the moment my car rolls through the gates. Something rotten beneath all that polish.

Something that makes my wolf, finally awake after years of silence, press against my consciousness with a low warning growl.

"Easy," I whisper.

"Miss Val
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