KAEL I couldn’t breathe.Not properly. Not when she was there, standing just beyond the firelight, shadowed, trembling, but daring. Daring to look at me. Daring to know that I had exploded, torn into my brothers, torn into the very air with my fury, and she had heard it all.My wolf growled low in my chest, every hair on my body rising, claws scraping invisible surfaces. Protect. Protect. Protect. It wasn’t just instinct anymore—it was blood, it was fire, it was hunger that had nothing to do with desire and everything to do with ownership.She turned slightly, and my stomach twisted. Elara. My Elara. My Riven. My mate. And yet… the word tasted strange on my tongue, too sacred to speak aloud. And here she was, defiant, fiery, refusing to cower, refusing to apologize, refusing to let me take control.I wanted to drag her to me. Hold her until she understood that no one—not Gerald, not anyone—could touch her, could look at her the way I had. I could feel Gerald’s presence like a thorn u
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