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POV: LioraBy the time the sun dipped behind the tree line, casting long shadows across the territory, I had come to a quiet realization I didn’t particularly like.Kael had changed his approach.Not in an obvious way, he still carried himself with the same authority, still issued commands with that steady, controlled tone that left no room for argument. To anyone watching from the outside, nothing about him had shifted.But I noticed the difference.Because now, he was watching everything.Not just me but everyone.It showed in the way his gaze lingered a fraction longer on certain warriors during drills, in how he positioned guards during patrol assignments, in the subtle adjustments he made to routines that had once been fixed. There was a new layer beneath his actions, calculation sharpened by suspicion.And that meant one thing.He believed there was a traitor in Nightbane.Which meant I wasn’t the only one being watched anymore.I stood near the edge of the training yard, adjust

Pov: Liora The walk back to the territory was silent, but it was not the kind of silence that came from calm or ease. It was tense, deliberate, filled with thoughts neither of us chose to voice yet. Eron stumbled more than once along the narrow forest path, his hands bound behind him, his breathing uneven as the weight of what he had done settled over him. Kael walked slightly ahead, his pace measured, his presence radiating a quiet authority that needed no reinforcement. I stayed just behind Eron, watching him carefully, not because I expected him to escape, but because something about the situation still felt unfinished. Catching him had been too easy. Not the chase itself, that had been real, instinctive, driven by training and urgency, but the confession. Wolves did not break that quickly unless they were already close to the edge. Eron had been afraid long before we found him, and fear had a way of loosening tongues. Still, it raised a question I couldn’t ignore. If he had bee

POV: LioraThe night air was cool, but it did nothing to calm the heat building beneath my skin.Standing that close to Kael had become dangerous in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Not because he might attack me or expose me, but because being near him made it harder to think clearly. Harder to hold on to the careful distance I had been trying to maintain since everything between us started unraveling.He had admitted it now.No more denial. No more pretending that whatever existed between us could be ignored.And that made everything worse.“I shouldn’t have come out here,” I said quietly, though I didn’t step back.Kael’s gaze didn’t leave mine. “Then why did you?”The question was simple, but the answer wasn’t.Because I felt him and the distance felt wrong.Because every instinct I had kept pulling me back to him no matter how hard I tried to stay away.“I needed to know where we stand,” I said instead.Something in his expression shifted, subtle, but there.“And where do you think tha

POV: LioraBy the time the first light of dawn crept over the horizon, the pack had already begun to move.Nightbane was not a pack that lingered in uncertainty. Kael had made sure of that. Orders had been issued before the moon fully set, patrol routes doubled, internal rotations shifted without explanation. To an outsider, it would have looked like routine discipline. To anyone paying closer attention, it was clear something deeper had shifted beneath the surface.And I was at the center of it.I stood at the edge of the training yard, arms folded loosely across my chest, watching as warriors cycled through drills with sharper focus than usual. Steel clashed against steel. Wolves shifted and unshifted in controlled bursts of aggression. Commands rang out, clipped and efficient. No one was careless. No one was distracted.But tension lived in the air.It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t obvious. It was quieter than that, threaded through every movement, every glance exchanged between warriors

POV: KaelI did not respond to her immediately.Not because I had nothing to say, but because I had too much.Liora’s words settled into my mind with a weight that refused to shift. Each piece of truth she had given me rearranged everything I thought I understood about her, about Matthias, about the situation we were standing in. She was not just a fugitive. She was not just a wrongly accused wolf trying to survive.She was a rightful Alpha in exile.And that alone was enough to destabilize an entire region.But it was not the part that held my attention.It was not the part that made my wolf restless beneath my skin, pacing with a sharp, agitated energy that I could barely contain.What held my attention…Was her.The way she stood in front of me, composed despite everything she had just revealed. The way she met my gaze without flinching, even now, when she had every reason to expect a shift in how I saw her. There was no arrogance in her posture, no attempt to assert dominance or c