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Is that…a metal detector?

Author: Viva
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Thane’s POV

The things I heard through the open intercom settled in me like a blade I couldn’t pull out.

The way her father spoke to her—like she was a burden, like she was disposable.

Like she was nothing.

No father should speak to his daughter that way.

Especially not her.

And then, as if he hadn’t done enough, he dared to speak about her mother like that.

As if she’d deserved to die.

I felt it—felt the rage thrumming in Kaid’s silence, simmering in Ryker’s clenched fists, crackling behind Caspian’s usually playful eyes.

We all wanted to go back. We all wanted to rip that man apart.

But we had a job to do first. A mission that couldn’t wait.

The shadow pack was moving something tonight. Something big.

And I wasn’t about to let that slip by us.

The port. That’s what this place was called. Where the ships rolled in with their steel bellies full of cargo and the night air always smelled like salt and rust and something faintly rotten.

I adjusted the intercom in my ear as
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