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Chapter 38: The Rogues

Author: Meminger
last update publish date: 2026-04-29 01:16:16

Hecate POV

The rogue den was unlike anything I had ever seen.

It was carved into the side of a hill, a gaping mouth of stone and shadow that reeked of blood and old meat. Torches flickered along the walls, their smoke curling toward a ceiling lost in darkness.

Bones littered the floor. Animal bones, mostly. But I did not want to look too closely at the ones that were not.

Maddox walked beside me, his shoulder brushing mine, his hand never straying far from the blade at his hip. I could feel th
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