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Chapter 36: The Rite of the Fang

Penulis: C B Rook
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-07 11:56:44

Selene

The yard did not recognise peace anymore.

That was the first thing I understood as we stepped back through the gate. Not that it had become openly hostile in every corner, though enough faces turned quickly enough toward Lucas for that threat to remain close beneath the skin of the place. Not that grief had lessened either. If anything, it had settled deeper, become heavier, more poisonous for having had time to move from shock into the body of the pack. No, what struck me first was that
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