SIENNAThat night, I couldn’t sleep.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Elira’s reflection in the mirror…her faint smile, the gleam of that dagger beneath her fingertips. Her words echoed like a slow, steady pulse in my head. “Once you threaten it… things fall apart.”The air in the pack felt too still, too heavy. I could hear the faint crackle of the fires outside, the wind tugging at the fabric walls, and somewhere in the distance, someone’s low, drunken laugh. The camp was alive, yet I felt like I was suffocating.When I finally pushed the curtain aside, the night looked calm, almost kind. But then I saw them.Elira stood close to Rhys near the main house, her hand tracing the line of his arm. She tilted her head, smiling up at him, lips moving in some soft, poisonous whisper I couldn’t hear. He didn’t smile back. His face was unreadable, the kind that gave away nothing.And then he looked up.Our eyes met across the courtyard, his dark and steady, mine frozen in the pale moo
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