Against All Odds
Not even the warrior who had challenged me.
"You wonder how an Alpha without her wolf can lead. You doubt because you cannot understand." I let the words ring, my voice rising with the flames along the walls. "But hear me now, wolves are flesh and fang. Fire is will. Fire is what bends the world, what makes gods bleed. And fire still burns in me."
The hall shivered with it, the conviction, the fury, the promise.
Archer straightened at my side, his small chest lifting, as though my fire had spilled into him. Even Kael, standing at the table's edge, inclined his head, that hard, rare respect flickering in his eyes.
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