Chapter 191: darkness

Talia's POV

My hair whipped violently around my face as the wind blew through the streets. The sky was dark—in an unnatural way. Not the soft, familiar darkness of night, but a heavy one, like something had draped a veil over the moon, plunging the pack into darkness.

I swallowed, my heart lodged painfully in my throat as adrenaline surged through me.

That low hum stirred again beneath my skin—the one I'd learned to recognise, the one tangled deep in my bones and blood.

My power.

It was restless, awake.

Something was wrong. Really wrong.

I needed Cassian.

I spun around.

The pack house loomed ahead of me, tall and imposing. I'd passed through its doors countless times without a second thought, but now... now it felt different. With the darkened moon hanging behind it, the structure looked less like a home, like something I couldn’t recognise.

A shiver ran down my spine.

"Cass?" I called, my voice swallowed almost instantly by the wind.

Silence answered me.

I