16POV EvanAfter days of searching for Viola, Beta Reyhand and I finally returned empty-handed.The forest along the border between packs, a place that usually preserved every trace, seemed to swallow Viola whole that night. There was no scent, no sign of footsteps, and no pulse of wolf magic that could be detected.She vanished, as if she had never existed.Since the search began, Jacob, the wolf within me, had not stopped roaring. His howls echoed inside my head, crushing and relentless, tightening my chest until it was hard to breathe. Jacob was restless.But no.It was more than that. Jacob was suffering.Lily.Jacob kept repeating her name in a low, wounded voice. Lily was Viola’s wolf. His true mate.I clenched my fists until my nails dug into my palms. I knew that feeling well, the primal urge to unite, to protect, to claim. The difference was that Jacob had already found his mate and lost her. They had loved each other. Unlike me, who had never been loved by Viola.“Alpha, he
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