TANYA’S POVThe palace was asleep.Or at least, everyone believed it was.I stood alone in the eastern tower, staring through the tall, arched window at the distant, sparkling lights of the capital below.Beyond those lights lay the Everhart Estate. And beyond that... the cold, unforgiving ridge of the northern mountains.Somewhere out there was the man I intended to marry. High Alpha Kael.My fingers tightened around the stone balcony railing until my knuckles turned white.He had returned. Alive. Unbroken.And somehow—against every single countermeasure, trap, and political boundary I had meticulously put in place—he had gone straight to her. Again.My jaw tightened, a sharp, bitter anger pulsing behind my temples. "That useless girl."The words slipped past my lips before I could stop them.Amara Everhart had been an inconvenience from the very beginning. A quiet, oversized, wolfless noblewoman who should have remained utterly invisible in the lower court. A girl no one
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