KAEL’S POV The battlefield stank of blood and smoke. Bodies, ours and theirs, littered the scorched earth, and the morning sun cast its pale light over the ruin Ronan had wrought. My wolf, still restless and snarling, paced inside me, demanding more blood, but the war was done. Ronan was dead. His pack was broken. But my victory tasted like ash. I stood amidst the carnage, my chest heaving, every muscle taut with rage. The last of Ronan’s warriors were being bound, their snarls muffled under the hands of my men. I should have felt relieved. Instead, my eyes locked on the bodies of the unfamiliar warriors, men who bore not Ronan’s crest, but the mark of another. The Alpha King’s crest. One of my lieutenants knelt beside a corpse, lifting a shredded breastplate. The sigil was clear, etched deep into the steel, a crowned wolf, wreathed in flame. “My lord,” he said quietly, dreadful in his tone. “These men… they weren’t Ronan’s. They were sent by the King.” My blood ran cold, then
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