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Chapter 170

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-07-19 22:53:25

Ember's POV

I heard him behind me before the door had fully closed.

Not footsteps following me — just his voice, carrying through the gap before the door shut, the last of it reaching me in the corridor.

"I will destroy it."

The door closed.

I kept walking.

"Whatever it is," he said, muffled now through the door, the words reaching me anyway the way sounds reached me differently since the wolf had started waking. "I do not care what it takes. I do not care how long it takes." A pause. "I will d
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