The dawn came pale and cold over the pack lands, mist curling like ghostly hands through the pines. Kaelen stood on the terrace outside his chambers, his bare chest rising and falling with shallow, uneven breaths. The wind stung his skin, but he barely felt it. His thoughts were a storm — dark, relentless, impossible to silence.Selene was pregnant.The words echoed again and again, clawing at the walls of his mind. She had shown him the proof — the faint, rhythmic heartbeat the healer had detected within her. The joy in her eyes had seemed real, too real to dismiss. The pack had already begun whispering of celebration, the promise of an heir. It should have been the fulfillment of every Alpha’s duty — lineage, legacy, bloodline.But his wolf didn’t believe it.That was the unbearable truth.Deep inside, the beast growled, restless and cold. It refused to acknowledge Selene’s scent, refused to bow to the idea that she carried their future. When Kaelen had tried to reach out, to feel t
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