I could feel it before I even noticed, a ripple moving through the air, faint but insistent, like the pulse of a distant heartbeat drawing closer. My body shivered, the child inside reacting sharply, energy thrumming violently along my spine. Jax’s hands pressed firmly on my hips, tail brushing mine, teeth grazing lightly against my shoulder as he growled low, alert. Derek pressed against my back, hands sliding along my sides, lips brushing my temple, grounding me, but I could feel the energy spreading beyond the clearing, uncontrolled, unstoppable.“Raya,” Derek murmured, voice low, tense. “It’s spreading… It’s reaching them.” I gasped, shivering violently, letting instinct coil, letting the child pulse, and the energy flared outward like a wave, brushing the trees, touching the distant territories without command. Wolves beyond the border shivered, some halting mid-step, some kneeling instinctively, and I moaned softly, feeling the pull, the resonance threading through every heartbe
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