For the longest time after Markus finished speaking, Felicia couldn’t find her voice.
The room felt completely still.
The air felt heavier.
As though the walls themselves were waiting for her answer.
Markus sat across from her, looking more vulnerable than she had ever seen him.
Not when they first became mates.
Not when he became Alpha.
Not even on the day his father died.
Never.
The powerful Alpha who commanded hundreds of wolves looked like a man standing on the edge of a cliff.
One answer could save him.
One answer could destroy him.
The realization should have made her feel powerful.
Instead, it made her sad.
Because they never should have reached this point.
None of it should have happened.
Not the lies.
Not the betrayal.
Not the banishment.
Not the years apart.
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