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Chapter Twenty-Six: The Hunter 

Author: Hatzia Apoty
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-31 18:54:38

Alastor’s POV

The river was quiet tonight.

Cold water ran through my hands carrying away the dirt and blood from my gloves. I watched it swirl and vanish into the current before tossing the rag in after it.

The girl had been quick. Too quick for someone raised behind castle walls.

I’d expected a frightened princess, not a fighter. There’d been precision in her strikes… desperation, yes, but control too.

Was my informant wrong?

That kind of control that doesn’t come from lessons in a ballroom.

She’d been trained… by someone who knew what fear felt like.

“Too skilled for a royal,” I muttered, flicking water from my fingers.

Mia Esbond. She wasn’t one I’d planned to stumble on this soon. The stories said she was reckless, stubborn, reckless again. But stories had a habit of being wrong.

Still, she’d surprised me, not many could stand their ground against me for that long.

I leaned back, the sound of the river fading as my thoughts drifted elsewhere.

Exile. The word lingered like a cur
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