The Human Among Wolves (Aurora) novel Chapter 376

Chapter 376

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Russia looked dead from above.

White. Endless. Silent.

From the moment our plane broke through the last layer of clouds, everything beneath us looked frozen in time- forests drowned in

snow, roads buried by wind, villages so small they barely even existed.

It felt like we were flying over the end of the world.

Kael sat across from me, laptop open, maps pulled up, satellite images shifting every few seconds as he zoomed in and out. His brows

were drawn tight, jaw clenched hard enough that the muscle kept ticking, but neither of us spoke.

What was there left to say?

Eight days.

Eight fucking days since she vanished.

And every hour since then felt like I was being skinned alive.

Zade’s voice still echoed in my head-the dream he managed to slip into, the details Aurora managed to force into words before waking

Russia.

Snow everywhere.

A narrow dark road.

Crossroads first-he turned left.

A broken road sign.

A wider straight road.

Forest stretching on for miles.

A right turn.

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A long, long stretch of nothing-

Huge metal gate that opened slowly.

White mansion.

Dark roof.

Frosted windows.

Trees planted perfectly to hide everything.

d repeated it to me again and again.

had repeated it to myself even more.

I could not afford to forget even one detail.

Kael leaned back at one point, rubbing his face. “You’re not going to blink until we land, are you?”

I ignored him. “How many properties match?”

“Too many,” he muttered. “Russia is full of rich assholes who build palaces in the middle of nowhere.”

He wasn’t wrong.

But I didn’t need many.

I needed one.

My knee bounced uncontrollably-anger and fear trapped in the same tight cage inside my chest. The seal on her wrist… Zade said something was fading. That whatever blocked them from reaching her dreams was weakening.

But that also meant she was still wearing it.

Still marked.

Still trapped.

Still alone.

By the time the wheels touched the runway, my hands were fists so tight my nails were cutting my palms.

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We descended the stairs without waiting for the airport staff. A man Kael knew-some grim, heavy-set Beta who owed him a favor-was waiting with a car, already running, heat blasting through the vents.

As soon as the doors shut, Kael started giving directions in rapid Russian, the Beta nodding, turning the car toward a road barely cleared of snow.

The world outside looked merciless-tall pines bowed under ice, wind slicing across the landscape like knives. Snow slapped the windows sideways as the car sped north.

I didn’t look away from the road once.

Every curve, every intersection, every shadow-I searched for Aurora in all of it.

Two hours in, Kael’s phone vibrated.

Zade.

He put it on speaker.

“I’m sending coordinates,” Zade said without even greeting us. His voice was sharp, urgent. “Based on what Aurora described, I narrowed down everything within fifty miles.”

“How many houses?” I demanded.

“Six. Maybe eight. Hard to tell. Russia’s full of secrets.”

“Which one?”

“Work through the list,” Zade said tightly. “Look for the trees. She said they looked planted. Perfectly aligned.”

I closed my eyes, forcing myself to remember her voice as she’d told him.

‘The trees were lined up so perfectly it didn’t look natural. Like they were planted just to block the view.’

A fortress disguised as elegance.

The car barreled through snowdrifts as Kael pulled up the images-houses scattered through the wilderness, each one massive, isolated, impressive.

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