Kaelira’s POVThe growl didn’t belong in a council room. But it didn’t stop.It dragged across the floor like something alive, low and sharp, vibrating through the walls, through the air..and through me.I didn’t turn.I knew who it came from. Everyone did.Silence dropped hard, cutting off whatever had been about to happen.I stood where I was, right in front of him, the Lycan still too close behind me, the space between us barely there.Wrong.Everything about this was wrong.“Control your wolf, Alpha.”The elder’s voice came out tight.Careful.But it didn’t carry authority the way it usually did.Because no one was looking at him.They were looking at us.At the distance.At the tension.At what didn’t make sense.I exhaled slowly, forcing my shoulders to stay relaxed.“Step away,” someone added.Not to me.To him.The Lycan didn’t move.Of course he didn’t.I felt it before I saw it, the shift in him, subtle, deliberate, like he was choosing not to react.Not submitting.Not prov
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