Rowan POVThe moment the hunter touches the door, something inside me changes forever.Because I realize I am no longer afraid of dying.I am afraid of her being taken.---The sound itself is almost nothing.Just the faint, controlled brush of gloved fingers against the metal handle, a subtle shift of pressure so careful and deliberate that it reveals more about the hunter outside than any weapon ever could, because only creatures who have learned patience through repetition move like that, only creatures who have learned extinction does not require speed take their time when death stands inches away.To human ears, it would be silence.To me, it is the loudest sound in the world.Every nerve in my body reacts instantly, instinct overriding pain, overriding exhaustion, overriding the silver still spreading through my bloodstream with slow, deliberate cruelty, because my wolf does not care that I am wounded, does not care that poison has begun dismantling me from the inside out, does
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