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Chapter 71 - Gone

🦋 ALTHEA

Thorne's voice cut through the tension like a blade. "Let the others go."

Morgana's eyes narrowed, calculating, weighing her last shreds of leverage.

Thorne turned his head, surveying the North Clan wolves surrounding us. They had formed a wall of fur, fangs, bodies fraught with promised annihilation and restraint.. Every eye glowed in the darkness. Every muscle coiled, ready to strike at the order.

He looked back at Morgana, waiting.

Her jaw clenched, teeth grinding, her face drained of all colour, forehead beaded by sweat. The silence stretched until finally, she spat the words like venom: "Release them."

My heart pounded in my throat as the brigade hesitated, looking to her for confirmation.

"You heard the man *release them*!" she snarled.

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