Henry’s POVI ordered the doors shut before the ache could settle into something visible.“No visitors,” I said sharply, my voice echoing against the stone walls of the chamber. “Not the council. Not the guards. No one.”The trusted warrior at the door hesitated only a second before bowing. “As you command, Alpha.”“And summon the pack physician,” I added, lowering my voice. “Quietly.”The door closed behind him, leaving the chamber steeped in silence. It pressed against my ears, thick and unrelenting. I rolled my shoulders back and exhaled slowly, though it did nothing to ease the tightness beneath my ribs.Something was wrong.I had felt it for days now—not pain exactly, but a wrongness, as though my body had slipped slightly out of alignment with itself. My wolf stirred uneasily beneath my skin, pacing, restless. Power hummed where it usually rested dormant, like a blade half-drawn.I moved to the window and stared out at Bloodhound’s inner court, though my focus drifted. I had sur
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