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add up", I muttered within my breath as

blood. But my eyes weren't on the carnage

t kept replaying in my mind like a scene etched into stone. Her hand had glo

we

way the air around her had shifted, like the ear

nce linge

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ike any wolf mag

different

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ga, of all things-carr

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inside her had stirr

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ing, low a

pack-at least, not yet. Not until I unders

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t my eyes betrayed me-t

soft words I couldn't quite catch. The glo

n the air, like lightning t

goddess' n

. That unknown unsettled me, deep in my bones. And Si

her-not with respect, but with confusio

stand between rogues and warriors. The

et, s

inctive. Like she

ts cle

her questioned. Detained. Investigate

stayed

h

ow faded, right after she saved that child-there w

ear. And somethin

and through my hair. My wolf shifted

gerous," i

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shadows outside the pack house, from the sideli

ldn't say why. No

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t was i

others treated her, the way she barely took up space in any

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knew what sh