Lahat ng Kabanata ng Howl for Justice : Kabanata 171 - Kabanata 180

The wolf bristles at that, but I hide it behind a tight smile. “Impressive.” Lucas nods, modesty so practiced it almost seems genuine. “We cross-checked Derek’s travel with the wire transfers. Every spike matches a new LLC formation, every lull a consolidation in Zurich or the Caymans. He got greed

He sits, not at the edge but comfortably back, as if this is just another war room and not the private sanctum of someone who might destroy or promote him with a single phrase. I gather my papers into a single stack, then join him, perching on the arm of the opposite chair because I can’t quite brin

The moon tonight is the kind that leaves nowhere to hide. It hangs low, lashed to the horizon by black wire clouds, its face so bright it spites the city’s sodium haze and sends hard lines of shadow through the slats of my office blinds. The silver finds my skin in cold needles. I roll down the slee

It’s not a question, but I answer anyway. “Yes. The moon is… bad this time.” He nods, like a man who’s already made peace with the fact of monsters. “I’ll be ready. If you need to tag out, just say the word.” The offer is comfort and threat both. I want to bite it, test the strength of it, but I j

The transformation always begins subtly—an itch beneath the skin, a metallic taste where there should be only saliva and regret. Tonight it arrives early. The moon is only a waxy gash in the cloud cover, but my body reads the angles, the old arithmetic of hunger and inevitability. The pulse in my wr