Ashes of the hybrid

etending to tie her shoelace, though the soles had long worn out. Her eyes followed a man selling roasted nu

of a girl walking beside her father-laughin

were like scattered feathers in the wind, drifting too

she made her move. Quick steps. Careful

O

endor turned. Th

bol

until her chest burned, and her breath came in short, ragged gasps. She ducked into an alley, pressed h

palm. Three nut

sit on her tongue before swallowing.

ountains cloaked in shadow, a gatheri

rved of ston

arp, postures stiff. The council ha

male with a coat as silver as winter frost. "Mi

d cutting. "They knew how to hide. But no

lickering. "Permission to take a search unit into Sec

nodded once. "Form a team. Move

d the younger wolf

vanished," the Alpha ad

urmurs as the pack moved lik

imes slept. A man had once left a tarp there, and if she curled just

y

d quickly

. Like invisible threa

lked f

Its windows were tinted. She paused, waiting for

against a lamppost a block away

d. But something was begi

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