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CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE — What Stays

Autor: Souldraft
last update Data de publicação: 2026-05-22 19:19:53

Ava’s POV

Three days was how long it took for the wolf world to feel the shift and start rearranging itself around it. Three days of pack communication channels lighting up like circuits that had been dark for eleven years. Three days of formal acknowledgments filtering in through Luca’s monitoring with some cautious and carefully worded, some almost giddy with relief, a few carrying the unmistakable hum of wolves who’d been holding their breath and finally got to exhale.

I spent most of those
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