Xavier's pov
The world stopped.
A shocked, deafening silence filled the cave, broken only by Emily's heartbreaking sobs. She kept calling Paul, begging him to get up.
But he didn't move.
"Please ..." she sobbed. "Please get up ... please, dad ..."
Everyone's eyes were glued to the center of the cave, to the black wolf slumped over the witch's corpse, motionless, silent. To that last act of pure love.
The last fight of the Crescent Moon pack's Beta.
"Please …"
Madeleine held Emily tighter, and her sobs multiplied, turning into genuine cries of pain, of grief.
When Dorcas, now the last of the Dark Sisters, laughed at Emily, seemingly oblivious to the fact that her last sister had just died, Mitch jumped on her, stopping that laughter in blood.
And just then, I felt my claws fina
