The Alpha's Refusal
This was a shadow government, a ghost army hiding in plain sight within the cracks of Rhys’s administration.
Once the sound of the guard's footsteps faded into the distance, Caïn exhaled, his hand slowly releasing the hilt of his dagger. "The Weeping Well," he whispered, his face grim in the shadows. "It’s in the ruins of the Old City, beneath the crumbling aqueducts. It’s a death trap, Elara. There is only one way in, and one way out through the main arch."
"Or," I replied, the fear in my chest crystallizing into a cold, surgical focus, "it is the perfect place for a massacre."
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