Alessia:
The pack didn’t feel like home anymore. Not in the way it used to. It still stood strong, walls intact, guards doubled, every corner watched, but beneath it all, there was something else now.
Tension.
It crept into everything. And I knew that it was only a matter of time before it started to truly show physically.
But now, it was stuck within, deep into something that no one wanted to admit. And it showed in the way wolves spoke in lower voices. Into the way footsteps echoed a little too sharply in the halls. Into the way every door that opened made someone turn their head just a second too fast.
And I felt it, more than anyone.
Because I had something to lose.
I stood in the nursery doorway for a moment, just watching.
“I promise you, little wolf, I am going to be sure
