KAYE'S POVFor one stretched, horrible moment, no one moved.The battlefield seemed to pause, as if even the warped wolves sensed the shift. Fire crackled. Someone groaned in pain. Ash drifted through the air like falling snow. And still, everyone stood frozen, eyes darting from face to face, searching for the traitor Jon Tulip had hidden among us.The eldest daughter.Someone trusted.Someone close.My heart pounded so hard it hurt. Through the mate bond, I felt Ethan’s mind racing, names flashing, memories replaying with brutal speed. Wolves we had leaned on. Wolves who had stood beside us in meetings, in grief, in planning.I forced myself to breathe and let my senses open fully.The silver veins along my arms burned hot, reacting to the pathogen network still screaming across the clearing. I followed the pull, the subtle wrongness I had learned to recognize over weeks of fear and betrayal.And then I smelled it.A scent that had been there for days. For weeks. Familiar enough that
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