The battlefield had gone still in that strange way storms do before they shatter the world—silence holding, every breath caught, every heart slamming against ribs as Kael and Lucien faced one another across the blood-slicked stone. Wolves pulled back instinctively, circling wide, clearing a space not by command but by the primal law that said no creature alive should stand between two Alphas at war.The blood moon glared above, swollen and hungry. Its crimson light ran down Kael’s scars like molten iron. His aura pressed against the stone, heavy, unrelenting, making it difficult even to breathe. And Lucien, golden and terrible, stood unbent in its wake, though his shoulders rolled back, muscles coiling, as if preparing to meet a force not even he could entirely withstand.When the first strike came, it cracked the world.Lucien lunged, claws unsheathed, a blur of black suit and molten eyes. Kael met him with a snarl that rattled the obelisks. Claw to claw, bone to bone, they collided
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