Alara’s POVThe peace only lasted a day.I realized it the next night, when the air itself felt too tight to breathe, like the world was holding its breath, waiting for something to snap.I was halfway through settling the twins when it happened.At first, it wasn’t a sound I recognized as danger. It was too restrained for that, too controlled. A fractured breath, dragged through clenched teeth. The subtle tremor that rippled through the walls of the private estate, not enough to shake anything loose, but enough that my wolf lifted her head sharply inside me.Then came the second breath — shattered, raw, wrong.Xavier.I didn’t think. I didn’t call for guards. I didn’t wait for reason to catch up with instinct.I rushed.The corridor stretched endlessly as I ran barefoot across cold stone, my heart pounding in rhythm with the rising agitation pulsing through the bond between us. It was faint — still repairing, still fragile — but what I felt through it made my chest ache.Pain. Rage.
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