Mated to the Alpha CEO
"It said I was weak. That I was only pretending to be brave. That everyone could see through it, and eventually I would fail, and wolves would die because of me."
Lira felt a chill that had nothing to do with the morning cold. She knew that voice. She had heard it herself, in the whispering forest, in the depths of the mountain, in the quiet moments before every battle. The voice of the Silence, speaking through its fragments, finding the cracks in a wolf's spirit and pressing against them.
"The Silence is a liar," she said. "It always has been. It finds your deepest fear and tells you it's the truth. But that doesn't make it true. It just makes it loud."