Aurelia's point of viewSilas’s hand fit mine like it always had. Solid, warm, a tether that kept my breath from scattering. We entered the great dining hall together, the pups clinging shyly to my skirt, their small faces peeking around our ankles. The room smelled of roasted meat and old candles; the great table stretched like a dark river through the center, and at its head sat the man who made my blood run thin: Alpha King Damien.He rose as we entered, slow and theatrical, as if the motion were practiced for effect. His eyes slipped over me with that patient hunger I’d seen before, then paused on Sara with a quick, almost casual intensity that set my teeth on edge.Silas’s jaw tightened beside me. I felt the heat of his warning before his voice cut across the hush. “Good evening, Your Majesty,” he said, clipped and flat.Damien smiled, the kind that never reached his eyes. “Alpha Silas, Luna Aurelia. I apologise for my abrupt departure earlier, ministers demanded my counsel on tr
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