KILLIAN~The air still smelled of smoke, and as I crossed the upper hall of my packhouse, stone cracked under my boots. It’s been three days since the storm ripped through the valley, and the walls still hummed with what it had left behind. The kind of power that claws through bone before it settles.My betas hovered at the edges, eyes downcast, waiting for the rage that never came.I should have raged, but rage was waste. Julius lived, of course he did. He always survived the wreckage I built for him. And she…A tremor rippled through the bond before I even finished the thought, soft as a heartbeat under .glass.Lucia.Rael approached first, his limp pronounced, voice low."Alpha, the eastern wing's collapsed. Labs are buried under rubble, your alchemical stores, the serum vats. We pulled what we could, but..."I turned to him, my expression rigid. "It wasn't failure, Rael. It was evolution."The words hung there, sharp as a blade. I could feel the unease spread through the pack like
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