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27: Breach

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"Midnight," Caden said, already moving. "That's less than an hour."

"We need to move her now," the pack member said. "Not wait for whoever's coming."

"No." Caden's voice sharpened with command, every trace of the exhausted, uncertain boy from the council chamber gone, replaced by something harder. "If we evacuate too visibly, whoever's watching sees it and adjusts. We need her somewhere secure that doesn't look like a retreat."

Seraphina's wolf paced tight and restless beneath her skin, adrenal
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