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Chapter 46: Street of Death
Author: Pure moon
last update2026-07-24 14:31:29

POV: Adam Swift

The ambush came on the Merchant's Row approach, exactly the kind of place Adam would have chosen himself if their positions had been reversed—a narrow street lined with shuttered stalls and parked transport wagons, buildings close enough on either side to funnel movement into predictable lines. He'd taken twelve men with him to scout the eastern approach roads before the Black Wolves' main column arrived, twelve men who now found themselves boxed into a kill zone with no warning
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