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Chapter Seventy-Eight – Heart of the Ruins

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The west wing of the fortress lay in ruins.

Beyond the collapsed galleries and half-buried halls, there remained an older place untouched by war, untouched even by time. A forbidden sector built long before Lucian’s reign, before the packs united older than any living wolf could remember.

When I first crossed the shattered threshold, the air changed.

Not heavy like the fog outside.

Not hollow like grief.

But waiting. Holding breath.

“Are you certain about this?” Kael whispered behind me, torch raised. “This section was sealed for generations. No patrols. No repairs. Even the elders said it was cursed.”

“It’s not cursed,” I said quietly, feeling along the cracked wall until my palm met cold sigils, glowing faintly beneath ash. “It’s forgotten.”

Lucian had been called away to reinforce the barracks the fog had begun to claw at the southern gates, and every Alpha command was needed. Which meant this… this I had to do alone.

No. Not alone.

Something guided me.

Between.

Mirek’s final word
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