Chapter 12: Echoes and Absence
It was a howl.
It had emerged from the forest beyond the lodge, low and dull at first, a dying dirge that scoured against the night. Then it rose, curving into a screaming high yelp that rattled windowpanes and scraped down my back like glacial fingernails. It wasn't distant. It was nearby. Impossi...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Wrong Beer
2. Chapter 2: Echoes in Static and Blood
3. Chapter 3: The Breaking Point
4. Chapter 4: Sanctuary's Sharp Edges
5. Chapter 5: Rusted Bars
6. Chapter 6: The Hand in the Dark
7. Chapter 7: The Storm Finds Its Calm 
8. Chapter 8: The Giant at the Door
9. Chapter 9: Sparks and Promises
10. Chapter 10: Rumbling stomach
11. Chapter 11: Broken Gold
12. Chapter 12: Echoes and Absence
13. Chapter 13: Cherry Bombs and Tripping Wires
14. Chapter 14: Held and Unlocked
15. Chapter 15: Tending flames
16. Chapter 16: Whispers and warnings
17. Chapter 17: The impulse of trust
18. Chapter 18: Curious thoughts
19. Chapter 19: Whispers in the dark
20. Chapter 20: Golden eyes in the dark
21. Chapter 21: The thorn and the touch
22. Chapter 22: The Edge of Surrender
23. Chapter 23: Sparks, Stumbles, and a Screamed Secret
24. Chapter 24: Lilies and Whispers
25. Chapter 25: Petals, Pulse, and Glowing Eyes
26. Chapter 26: Breath, Bones, and Breaking Points
27. Chapter 27: Shattered Silence and Whispered Terror
28. Chapter 28: Two Weeks and a Cracked Heart
29. Chapter 29: Lilies, Lace, and the Pull of Him
30. Chapter 30: Sparks in the Rain
31. Chapter 31: Post-Tempest
32. Chapter 32: The edge of truth
33. Chapter 33: The wolf
34. Chapter 34: The truth
35. Chapter 35: The Howling Truth
36. Chapter 36: Through the Wrong Woods
37. Chapter 37: The Wolf and the Man
38. Chapter 38: The Cage of Truth
39. Chapter 39: The Breaking Point
40. Chapter 40: The Shape of Us
41. Chapter 41: Hunters
42. Chapter 42: Breakfast of Claim
43. Chapter 43: The full moon
44. Chapter 44: The Pull of the Moon
45. Chapter 45: The Wolf's Claim
46. Chapter 46: The Morning After the Storm
47. Chapter 47: The Weight of Guilt
48. Chapter 48: The Wolf's Ears
49. Chapter 49: The knock
50. Chapter 50: Formal
51. Chapter 51: “She’s my mate”
52. Chapter 52: Leave Taken, Promise Kept
53. Chapter 53: Return
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