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Chapter 59— The Breach

Author: Freya Winter
last update publish date: 2026-06-20 22:46:51

Caden's forces hit the southern wall at dusk.

Sera felt it before the horn sounded. Pressure through the bond, sharp and collective, the pack's attention snapping toward the breach point as one. She stood in the inner courtyard with Edda at her shoulder and the artifact wrapped tight against her chest, its warmth pressing through fabric against her sternum like a second heartbeat answering her own. Every enforcer around her went still and ready in the same instant, weapons rising, eyes turning
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