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0188: The Pouch She Kept

Auteur: FlyingDove
last update Date de publication: 2026-08-26 06:06:47

BENJAMIN'S POV

The man I put on the clinic came up to the house before it was dawn, four nights of nothing to report, and reported it anyway.

"Lights on past midnight every one of them, Alpha. Back room. Doctor Marlow."

"He works late."

"He does." He turned the page over in his hand and never once looked down at it. "Elder Aldric came down on the second afternoon and was inside about an hour."

I set my cup down.

"And Cole been in twice. Once at the front, once at the market end with Marlow out
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