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Chapter 40
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2026-05-01 14:32:01The Traitor's Price
POV: Alpha Kaelen Blackwood
The Shadow-walkers moved like liquid smoke across the ancient, slick stones of the bridge. They did not howl like the mindless Ferals we had fought at the mill. They made no sound at all, their boots silent against the mud, their crimson masks obscuring their faces as they descended upon us with terrifying, lethal precision.
I parried a downward strike from a jagged, red-steel shortswo
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