My Alpha Lost Me To The Lycan King
Something closer to breathing—vast, slow, and patient, as though whatever slept below had only just begun to stir fully awake.
Elise's hand found mine, trembling despite everything she'd already survived tonight, and when she spoke, her voice carried a fresh, raw exhaustion that made my chest ache with fear for exactly how much more this endless night intended to demand of her.
"I don't know if I have anything left to give this," she whispered. "Alaric, I claimed the Heart, freed the smoke, absorbed the first queen's grief, and just finished unwinding three centuries of manufactured cruelty from a stranger who used to be someone's brother. I don't know if there's enough of me left standing t