No Place for a Packless Wolf
The woman coughed badly, vomiting blood as her ribs cracked against the concrete wall.
"Let him rot here. Don't give him anything to eat or drink until the Vanguard representatives decide the fate of his carcass," Julian ordered without mercy to the remaining guards.
Julian stepped out, his breath ragged. He squeezed his shirt at his chest, right where his heart was beating.
"Chloe..." he muttered softly, a lament of regret that was a million lights too late. "I realized... I'm crazy... come back..."
But at the end of the hall, it wasn't Chloe that he found, but a line of armed military troops with the Black Wolf logo. And behind them, Arthur's figure stood tall with a gold pocket watch in h