Auroras POV“I’m not leaving,” I said again.Rowan stood at the far side of the table, hands braced against the wood, shoulders squared like he was holding back an earthquake.Zander was closer to me, but I felt the tension in him all the same—tight, coiled, dangerous.This wasn’t about strategy anymore.This was about who we were going to be.“Aurora,” Rowan said carefully, his voice low and steady in that Alpha way that usually grounded everyone in the room, “listen to me.Morana isn’t hunting blindly. She’s thinking. She’s waiting for the moment she can fracture us.”I stepped closer. Close enough that he had no choice but to look at me.“She already tried,” I said quietly. “And it didn’t work.”Zander let out a sharp breath. “You felt that separation differently because of your heat. That doesn’t mean—”“It means everything,” I cut in, my voice rising. “It means she was counting on me to break.”The bond pulsed—warm, fierce, alive.Rowan’s jaw tightened. “We’re not saying you’re w
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