Semua Bab To Love The Hunters Daughter: Bab 71 - Bab 74

RafeThe air felt too still. Too quiet for what was coming.I stood in my office, staring at the maps strewn across the table like scars carved into parchment. Lines, trails, markings—each one a choice that could save us or destroy us.Cassian leaned against the desk, flipping through a set of reports, his sleeves rolled up, sweat and dirt streaking his forearms. “Here’s what we’ve got,” he began, his voice clipped but steady. “One hundred and fifty wolves total. Forty scouts, thirty trained for direct assault, the rest strong enough to hold the defensive line. The healers are prepping supplies in case we get wounded. Those who were injured from last week’s patrols should be fit to run in another day or two.”I nodded slowly, tracing the curve of a ridge with my thumb. “And the Hunters?”Cassian’s jaw flexed. “Still fortifying their east wall. Scouts s

RafeThe forest blurred around us—shadows darting between trees, paws pounding against the earth in perfect rhythm. The scent of the Hunters grew sharper with every stride, acrid with oil and gunpowder. Beneath it, I could hear the faint hum of engines, the low buzz of electric fences straining against the mist.We’re close.Branches whipped past my face. The world was a blur of movement—fur, breath, and the thunder of a hundred heartbeats locked to the same rhythm.The first arrow sliced through the air, embedding in a tree near my flank. Then another. And another.The attack had begun.Move! I snarled through the pack bond.Wolves scattered, darting low through the underbrush, silent as ghosts. Ironridge thundered from the east, their howls splitting the dawn as they collided with the Hunters’ perimeter. Gunfire cracked through the trees—deafening but useless once we reached th