บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha Queen Returns: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 17

The first whistle called me back.I started counting. One. A pause. Two. Three. The intervals were irregular—not a methodical sweep but a reading of signs, cutting toward where the evidence pointed. He was fast and precise and I adjusted my estimate upward. Four. Five. I moved to the next tree by br

I had been standing there long enough to hear the whole argument.Not by intention. I'd crossed through the eastern training ground on the way back from the parking lot and tracked the voices the way you track anything that might require attention. Most things don't. This one had my name in it, so I

Callan laughed.The sound had the quality of someone filing the statement as: joke, clearly, and waiting for the punchline. He looked at Vale the way you looked at someone who'd said something absurd — expecting, any moment, for the frame to shift and the real meaning to arrive. When it didn't, when

"I don't know what you're talking about."The words came out flat and unadorned, exactly as I had intended. I kept my expression at the setting I had maintained since my first week at Silvermoon — baseline: unremarkable, slightly confused, not worth further attention.Vale looked at me in the manner