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The Mate I Refuse to Keep

作者: Katie Haddad
last update 公開日: 2026-04-07 20:57:43

Nyxara POV

The wolf believes fate has tied us together.

What he doesn’t understand;

Is that I intend to cut the thread before it tightens.

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The first sound is distant.

Subtle.

Almost easy to ignore if one is not paying attention.

Boots.

Many of them.

Not rushing.

Not careless.

Measured.

The hunters have learned patience the same way wolves once learned dominance—through repetition, through failure, through survival that demanded they adapt faster than the creatures
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