Semua Bab The Wolf Who Shouldn’t Love: Bab 21 - Bab 23

The Fire That Awakened Her ••• The first scream reached the camp like a jagged slash through the night. Aella heard it before anyone else. She was standing near the boundary markers, scanning the forest for movement, forcing herself to pretend her heartbeat wasn’t reacting to Thalen’s confession from the night before. The trees were silent. The air was still. The moon hung pale and round above the canopy. And then… a single scream tore through the stillness. Aella’s head snapped up. Her fingers tightened around the hilt of her blade. Another scream followed. Then another. Not animal. Not rogue wolves. Human. Terrified. Burning. Before she could call for anyone, a burst of orange flared in the distance the unmistakable flicker of fire. A village was burning. Aella’s stomach dropped. She didn’t think— she ran. Leaves whipped past her face as she sprinted between the trees. Her breaths came hard and fast as the air began to smell of smoke. Bright sparks drifted upward like fi

The Abduction***The morning broke with a pale, washed-out light that did nothing to ease the tension suffocating the Dominion. Smoke still lingered from the recent village fires, curling through the air like accusing fingers. Aella stood at the balcony of the east tower, her hands gripping the cold stone as she surveyed the lands below.Every inch of her felt too tight, too full. Ever since the attack, her power had throbbed beneath her skin like a pulse separate from her own heartbeat. She could sense emotions she shouldn’t be able to sense, hear whispers carried from impossible distances, feel the tremors of fear echoing from those who lived under the Dominion’s protection.It overwhelmed her.But she hid it.She hid everything.Because Thalen was watching her again.He stood in the shadowed archway behind her, arms crossed over his chest. His dark hair was tousled from lack of sleep, and the faint bruise along his jaw earned when a collapsing beam during the fires struck him only