By the next morning, peace had already begun to change shape. Not break. Not disappear. But shift—like something beneath it had started to move. Amber felt it before she saw it.A tension in the air. Subtle, controlled, but present. The kind that didn’t come from danger—but from people. And people, she had learned, were often more complicated than anything else. The gathering grounds were no longer quiet. Where the day before had been calm, now there were more voices, more movement, more presence. Representatives from different packs had arrived through the night and early morning—Alphas, betas, envoys. They weren’t here to celebrate. They were here to assess. To question. To decide.Amber stood at the center of it, her posture straight, her expression composed. She didn’t try to dominate the space. But she didn’t shrink from it either. Raymond stood beside her. Unmoving. Unshaken.Selene lingered a short distance away, her gaze sharp as she tracked every shift in the crowd.“They cam
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