Three weeks at Moonshadow Pack compound had changed me.Not physically—though the healing had completed, leaving my body stronger than it had been in years. Not even the mate bond, though it had settled into something warm and constant beneath my ribs.No, the change was deeper. More fundamental.For the first time in my life, I had a home.I stood on the balcony of the room Kelvin had given me—our room, he kept gently correcting, though I hadn't fully accepted that yet—watching the pack's morning routines. Warriors training in the courtyard below. Mothers herding children toward the pack school. Elders gathered near the main hall, discussing pack business with the easy confidence of people who knew they were safe.Pack life. Community. Family.Things I'd only observed from the outside. Things I'd believed Ghost Wolves could never have again."You're brooding again," my mother said from the doorway. She'd recovered well from her injuries, though she still favored her left leg. "That's
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