Eira’s POVThe council hall always feels colder than the rest of the packhouse, like the stone itself remembers every argument, every accusation, every alliance forged under duress. Today is no different. The air hums with the low growl of gathered alphas, and the tension sticks to my skin like static.I stand behind my father’s left shoulder, the position reserved for an heir—not a child, not yet an adult, but the bridge between what the pack is and what it will become. My eighteenth birthday is six days away. Six days until everything changes, or implodes, or both.Across the room, Kalen Draven enters the hall with the kind of calm authority that ripples outward. I hate that people notice him first. I hate more that I do too.Veyla shifts beneath my skin, ancient and alert, like the air thickens whenever he’s near.Not him, I warn her.She doesn’t answer. She only watches.My father’s voice draws my attention back to the table. “We are here to discuss the increasing cross-border att
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