Roland's POV-Kneeling next to him, my son, Julian, his thin face barely visible in the wavering light from a nearby fire, his chest rising in painful, shallow breaths, I saw blood soaking through the bandages that I'd bound around the silver blade wound that wouldn't close in his inner thigh. The burning-out of Silver Veil’s ritual lab had emptied my pack, fifty wolves gone in a flash of fire and steel, their absence an open wound in my soul, but Julian—my heir, my blood—was the deepest scar, a grief to cut sharper than any claw. He had betrayed us, taking the runed dagger and ruining the ritual, otherwise, he would’ve been a traitor in my eyes, and still, he lay broken, barely alive, and if need be... I gave up my heartbeat to have him alive. The Alpha’s primal stench, a power orchestrated by Elara and Lyra’s shared blood, clung to Vellex’s frost-encrusted woods, a menace that clenched my hand around my belt knife, its chill steel tethering me. Elara and Damien's hushed unity, smoot
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