Knox truly goes rogue on a Tuesday.We’re sleeping in the same room when his phone buzzes at 3 AM. He leaves the bed without waking me, but the bond wakes me. The gold channel spikes with a signal that tastes like cold metal and adrenaline, and I hear his boots in the hallway, the front door, then the bike starting in the lot below my window.He comes back at dawn, smelling of concrete dust and engine grease, from the east side of the city, where the warehouses sit empty, and the storefronts have plywood for windows. His knuckles are scraped. His eyes are gray, but the gold sits right behind them, close to the surface, ready."Where were you?""Scouting.""For what?""Territory."The word lands in the bedroom with a weight my body registers before my brain can unpack it. Territory means pack, and pack means the thing Knox lost when he set his cut on Viktor's bar. That loss has been sitting in the gold channel as a hollow frequency, his wolf reaching for it again and again, finding onl
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