The Shadowed Exchange

Darius Thorne

It had been a week since Cassia and Garek vanished. A week of sleepless nights, relentless searching, and countless dead ends. Every passing day without her gnawing at me, the pain sharper than any wound I’d ever endured. My wolf was restless, pacing and howling inside me, demanding I find her. Demanding I bring her back.

The mornings were the hardest. Every day I woke with the faint