CELINE (wolf: Casey)The next evening, I told Rolan I wanted to walk alone.He'd hovered in the doorway, clearly debating whether to argue, before finally relenting with a reluctant nod. "Just stay close to the main path," he'd said, and I'd promised I would, grateful for even this small stretch of space to breathe in without anyone watching me too closely.The park was quiet, the kind of golden-hour calm that made the whole world feel briefly, deceptively gentle. I let my feet carry me along the path, trying to enjoy it — really enjoy it, for once, without my mind racing ahead of me.It didn't last.My thoughts drifted, as they always did lately, back to the triplets. ‘Had they actually left the pack? Gone home, given up, decided I wasn't worth the trouble after all?’ I doubted it. I knew them too well for that. Stubborn didn't begin to cover what those three were capable of.‘This one small pocket of peace, I thought, almost bitterly, and even here, they manage to take up space
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