(Zyandra's POV)Rhett lay on the forest floor, his chest rising and falling unevenly, eyes half-closed, as though the night itself had drained him of his strength. I knelt beside him, my heart thudding in my chest. The anger that had fueled me moments ago was now tempered by something unfamiliar—pity, maybe, or the faintest flicker of doubt. He didn’t know, couldn’t know, what had just happened. He had walked into a world he had no concept of, and I had nearly killed him in blind obedience to duty.My hand hovered over his shoulder, and for the briefest moment I allowed myself to feel the weight of what I had become. The Alpha, the leader, the protector… and yet here I was, crouched over a human who hadn’t even realized what he had done, questioning why my instincts had driven me toward rage so quickly.I looked down at him. He was so small, so fragile in ways humans often were, and it made me sick to think of how close I had come to ending him. My chest tightened, and for the first t
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