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he grand foyer of the Hayes Pack estate. "After everything this family has don

ng with fake sympathy. "Grandma, please calm down. It's not worth raising your blood pressur

r to look back. I simply pushed open the heavy

er go! Where is a wolfless runt going to go anyway? She has nothing! She'll

em thi

in a dark storefront window was a stark reminder of what I'd endured-my face was a sickly, translucent pale. It was the direct result

Shadow Market flickered to life, signalin

s. I counted them. Fifty bucks. Compared to the hundreds of t

ed to make some

ront of me was a derelict warehouse with two massive m

twenty dollars from my pocket-a significant portion

, his eyes full of contempt for my m

vy iron door and step

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ade Bar, I swirled the amber liquid in my glas

nk, following my line of sight with a c

thi

treet casting a crimson glow over the rim of my g

tle stray, running away fro

the tinted glass, looking thorough

e gray hoodie had already vanished in

pha-your grandfather-is already deep in the antique artifact sect

t pale, defiant little face. "The old man just got here and

turning back to the bartende