The Human Among Wolves (Aurora) novel Chapter 163

Chapter 163

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The wind outside faded again, leaving the cabin wrapped in that same thick silence.

Kael’s flashlight beam swept across the walls, revealing rows of claw marks etched into the wood–shallow, but deliberate. Too clean to be random.

“She was fighting,” Zayn muttered under his breath.

“Or protecting something,” I added quietly.

The air still buzzed faintly around me, like whatever I’d touched hadn’t fully faded. I took a step deeper inside, past the broken shelves, the ruined glass jars that had once held herbs. My boots crunched over something soft–ash.

“Be careful,” Kael said, his voice lower now, like even he didn’t want to disturb the quiet.

I knelt near the small table by the window. The sunlight coming through the cracked glass fell over the surface, catching on something half–buried beneath a torn book. I pushed it aside and froze.

A pendant.

A twin to the one that had been left in my room.

Same shape. Same dull silver chain. Except this one wasn’t stained with blood–it glowed faintly, as if light was trapped inside it, pulsing like a slow heartbeat.

“Kael,” I whispered..

He was beside me in seconds. “What is it?”

I held it up, and for a moment, none of us spoke. The faint pulse reflected in Kael’s eyes, soft but rhythmic.

“That’s not normal,” Zayn said, crouching beside me.

“You think?” Kael muttered, but even his sarcasm sounded off–uneasy.

I turned the pendant over carefully in my palm. The warmth of it seeped into my skin, familiar somehow, though I couldn’t explain

why.

Then I saw it.

Engraved along the edge in the smallest letters imaginable was a single word.

Aurenya.

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My real mume.

Zayn saw it the same moment I did. His voice drugged to a whinger That’s *

Kael’s jaw tightened. Someone knew she f come back here he sat Then watted her to find stic

“But why?” I asked, my voice shaking a little. “I Seraphina’s gine why leave something like this beting

“Because it’s a message. Kael said grimly

Zayn shook his head. “No. It’s a connection.”

I locked between them. “What’s the differences

Zayn’s eyes met mine, dark and steady, a message ends when you read & conection means it’s sill spen

I didn’t like how that sounde

今

The pendant pulsed again in my palm–slower this time, but song I felt it in my dies, like it was sucing to my heartbeat. The

air grew warmer

“Drop it,” Kael said quickly. Aurora, drop it-

I didn’t. I couldn’t

The warmth turned into something deeper–like someone brushing against the ages of my daughte

“They’re coming for you.”

My eyes flew open. I gasped, the pendant slipping from my fingers fit the four with a dull metalic sound

Zayn caught me before I fell, his hands steady on my arms. “Ame

I could still hear the echo of her voice in my head. “The suit–they aming ir ne

Kael was already moving toward the window, eyes sharp Who’s cog

“I don’t know,” I whispered. “But she sounded–scant”

Zayn’s hand tightened on my shoulder. “We need to leave. Now

Kael turned back from the window, face pale. Too late for that.

My stomach dropped. “What do you mean

He didn’t answer–just tited his chin toward the trees.

Through the glass, shadows moved

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Not fast. Not human.

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And they were getting closer.

For a long moment, no one spoke.

The glow from the pendant faded to nothing, leaving only the weak morning light spilling through the windows. The air felt thick-—

like the cabin itself was holding its breath.

Keel dragged a hand down his face, pacing a slow line across the floorboards. His boots creaked against the old wood. “This was a bad fucking idea,” he muttered, more to himself than to anyone else.

Zayn exhaled through his nose, still standing close to me. “You think?” he said quietly. His tone wasn’t sharp–just tired, edged with something that sounded like restraint. “We should’ve never brought her back here.”

Kael shot him a look. “We? You were just as ready to come charging in.”

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