Chapter Forty-One- Finally Free
The strain was unbearable.
Evandra felt it in the way the warriors snapped at each other in the training yard, the way omegas whispered in the kitchens, the way Liora’s eyes carried worry every time she glanced toward Tristan’s closed chamber doors. The bond was demanding more, pulling tighter, fraying at the edges. And it was dragging the whole pack with it.
By the time night fell, Sage was pacing so hard in her chest that Evandra could hardly breathe. She couldn’t take it anymore. She left her own chambers and walked the quiet corridors, guided by something more instinct than choice. Her feet carried her to Tristan’s door.
She didn’t knock. She slipped inside.
Tristan stood at the window, shoulders rigid, staring into the night like he was at war w
