HIDDEN HOWL
Blood poured from his nose, dripping onto the floor in steady splatters.
"I'll ask again," Xerxes growled, his amber eyes glowing faintly. "Who sent you?"
The rogue groaned, his breaths coming in ragged gasps. “No one,” he managed to croak, spitting blood onto the floor. “We weren’t sent. Rogues are free animals. We want nothing but revenge on the pack that ostracized us.”
I leaned against the wall, arms crossed, watching the scene unfold. My silence wasn’t out of disinterest but rather calculation. I studied every twitch, every flicker of emotion that crossed the rogue’s battered face. His words had conviction, but his eyes betrayed him. He was lying.
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