“Brooke, right over here!”Madison waved her arm through the thick haze of the meat-stalls. Our wolves hadn’t crossed paths in over a moon cycle, and the toll of the lower settlement was starkly etched into her skin. The girl had dropped a tremendous amount of weight. Her face lacked the meticulous grooming that had once marked her status at the high estate, and her golden eyes were weighed down by a raw, naked exhaustion.“My tracking senses report a few high-caste tea cabins bordering the ridge line. How does your alignment view shifting our conversation to a more secure perimeter?” I countered, my eyes sweeping toward the heavily scarred rogues from the corner of my vision.“This particular trading stall is overseen by a pack brother of Jeff’s. My purse commands zero luxury coin now, so my hand could only satisfy the trade rate for the cuts here,” Madison explained, forcing a hollow smile. “Oh, Jeff is my biological brother.”Left with minimal choice to avoid a public scene, I drop
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