The Wooden Blade POV: General Vesh (Elara Vance)He was going to kill himself, and he was going to take my sanity with him.I stood under the canvas awning of the command tent, watching Kaelen run the obstacle course for the fifth time. His dark thermal shirt was plastered to his massive torso, slick with rain and sweat. Mud coated his arms and face. His bandaged shoulder was bleeding through the linen, a dark crimson stain spreading across his left side.And yet, he didn't stop. He didn't complain. He took every harsh command, every brutal punishment I threw at the squad, and he executed it with a terrifying, silent devotion.He is beautiful, Astra sighed in my mind, her violet eyes tracking his every movement with unabashed hunger. He fights through the pain for us.He is manipulating us, I snapped at my wolf. He’s trying to make us feel guilty.But it wasn't working. I didn't feel guilty. I felt frantic."You need to pull him off the field, Elara," Alaric said, standing be
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