The training hall at Wolfe Tower had taken on a new intensity. The marble floors, polished to a mirror sheen, reflected the sunlight streaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows, each beam highlighting the pack in motion: Mara, Nadia Clarke, Silas, Rowan, and Zaria, whose silver eyes glinted with something deeper, something newly awakened. The scent of sweat, iron, and burning adrenaline clung to the air, mixing with the lingering echo of Caelus’s low, rhythmic rumble inside her chest.Zaria’s breaths came in shallow, rapid bursts, her body taut as she stood facing Mara. The other wolf’s expression was cool, assessing, relentless. “Tell me, Zaria,” Mara said, voice even but sharp as a blade, “if I’m lying, I want you to feel it. Every heartbeat, every pulse, every lie radiates through the room. Detect it. Call it out.”Zaria’s ears twitched. She could feel the faintest tremor in Mara’s heartbeat, subtle and calculated. Her wolf Caelus stirred beneath her skin, a surge of silver fire
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