Alpha Kael
IVY POV
The hall of the Blackthorns was a throat of stone high, cold, and swallowing every sound my boots made. I stepped over the threshold and the heavy doors groaned shut behind me like they regretted it. Torch smoke drifted low, carrying the sting of pine resin and something darker, almost sweet, like blood left too long on iron. I tasted metal on my tongue and kept walking. Wolf pelts hung from the rafters, gray and black, eyes glassy, mouths frozen in last snarls. Their shadows jittered in the draft, snapping at my shoulders. I didn’t look up again; I was busy listening to my own heart argue with the silence. Each beat said, Turn around. Each echo answered, Too late. At the far end he
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