Alpha Kael’s POVNight had long swallowed the estate by the time I finally left my study. The day had been unbearable with meetings, reports, territory disputes, guards begging for approval over matters they should have solved themselves and through all of it, through every conversation, every order, every distraction, my thoughts kept returning to Liora.I despised it.It was disgusting how she had somehow carved herself into my mind like a splinter I could not remove.Even now, as I walked through the dimly lit hallways with servants lowering their heads respectfully around me, I found myself irritated for reasons I refused to acknowledge.The estate was quieter at night, the candles burned lower and the air smelled of rain drifting through open stone arches somewhere far away.Usually, this was the hour I enjoyed most, when everyone feared disturbing me, but tonight my wolf felt restless beneath my skin, not hungry.For the first time in years, the endless gnawing hunger inside me
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