(Kael’s POV)The silence in the Obsidian Pack’s Grand Hall was an insult. It was the heavy, suffocating quiet of wolves waiting for me to perform, to make a choice that determined their future. I stood before the hearth, heat failing to thaw the ice in my veins, every nerve ending screaming with dissatisfaction.I was twenty-eight, the Alpha, and utterly alone, atleast that’s what my parents keep screaming at me.My inner wolf, an obsidian beast of immense power, was pacing a relentless track in my mind, its low growl a constant, demanding thrum beneath my breastbone. Not here. Not one of them.For the third night this month, my parents had orchestrated a “Gathering” a polite term for a cattle call where daughters from every allied pack were presented as potential Lunas.Fucking pimps. The air was thick with cheap perfumes, nervous sweat, and the cloying ambition of hopeful mothers. It made my nostrils flare with disgust.I focused on the latest unfortunate soul standing before me: a
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