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chapter 28

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She had been suppressing it since the rejection.

That was what the healer had told her in her first week at Shadow Fang—gently, carefully, as though she understood that the information was going to land heavily. That a Luna's energy doesn't disappear when a bond is broken or damaged. It turns inward. It becomes pressure. And pressure, held long enough, either breaks something or builds to the kind of force that cannot be quietly contained any longer.

Betty had been building for months.

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    The First Festival Thornfield's first territorial festival was not planned. It happened the way real things happen — organically, slightly chaotically, driven by a collective impulse that nobody could trace to a single source. Someone lit a fire in the central yard on the evening of the ninetieth day. Someone else brought food. A third person brought an instrument Betty hadn't known any of them played, and by the time the sun finished setting, forty-seven wolves were gathered around a fire that had not been officially organized and was therefore, somehow, more real than any official gathering could have been. Betty sat at the edge of it with Wren beside her and let it happen around her. She was learning this — the art of allowing. The Alpha instinct was always to organize, to structure, to lead from the front. She was discovering that the deepest leadership sometimes looked like stepping back and creating the conditions for something to grow and then trusting it to grow. Evander

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    What Grows In Ninety Days The first wolf arrived on day four. Her name was Sera. She was twenty-eight, dark-haired, thin in the way of someone who had been under sustained stress for a long time, with eyes that moved carefully around any space she entered before she allowed herself to be fully present in it. She had been in Vane's territory for two years. She arrived at the boundary of the Rayne ancestral lands with a single bag and the careful dignity of someone who has decided to stop being ashamed of surviving. Betty met her at the boundary herself. She didn't make a speech. She didn't perform welcome. She simply walked out to where Sera was standing at the edge of the unclaimed land and stood beside her and said: "You don't have to decide anything yet. You can just be here for a while." Sera looked at her for a long moment. Then she looked at the land stretching ahead — the old Rayne territory, wild and unstructured, pine and meadow and a river that ran clear and fast throug

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