Bound to The Enemy of My Mate
"When the contract is done and it is safe... come with me. Come live with the pack. In the wildness, under the open sky. You won't need your masks there. No politics, no cages of stone, no pretending to be something you're not. You can just... be. You can be free, Elira. Truly free."
She listened, her eyes closed, and let the image form in her mind. She saw towering trees instead of palace walls. She felt soft earth under her feet instead of cold marble. She saw a life where her laughter didn't have to be measured and her posture didn't have to be perfect. It was her oldest, most secret dream. It was the very reason she had proposed the contract to Kael—to buy her freedom from her father's w