Dominic's POV The convoy formed up, including four bikes behind me, and at the back of the formation, Liana's silver car, already running.I pulled forward toward the gates.The pack guard opened them, and I rode through, the morning air hitting me cold and flat, radiating the smell of the territory in winter: earth and frost alongside another unusual smell, living beneath both.I did not look back.I got treacherous at the end of the entrance track where it met the main road, and something made me look up.Third floor of the pack house. The window at the far left of the building, the one that caught the morning light on the wrong side of the day and was therefore always slightly dim. She was standing in it with her arms at her sides, not pressed against the glass, or waving, not even performing anything. Just standing, and looking out…looking at me.I held it. Two seconds, exactly, the gates still open behind me and her in the window, plus the distance between us and the cold morni
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