Xavier POV The storm had passed, but the weight inside me had not. For days we had scoured every corner of our lands, every shadowed glade, every ridge and hollow. We turned over rocks, broke into caves, followed every scent until the trails bled into nothing. Nothing. The pack was exhausted, men collapsing from the relentless hunt, women whispering in fear, pups crying into the night. And still no Larissa. The silence she left behind was more haunting than her presence ever was. At night when I closed my eyes, I heard her voice, soft and pleading. I saw the way she looked at me the last time we stood together in the council chamber, her eyes shattered like glass, her lips trembling with words she could not say. My chest burned every time the memory returned. She had been sentenced to exile, and I, fool that I was, had watched her be taken away. I had let her go. Selene had stayed close during these days, too close. She moved like a shadow in my halls, offering herself in quie
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