Eliose:
I didn’t understand them, that was what unsettled me the most.
I didn’t understand their strength, their numbers, or even the way their instincts flared when they looked at me and yet, neither one of them seemed to react on it.
It was the restraint. One that I didn’t even know wolves could have.
The Luna had healed me.
The Alpha hadn’t ordered my execution.
And Marcel… their beta who should have pushed me away the second he laid eyes on me…
He walked beside me like I wasn’t a weapon waiting to turn.
The gardens were quieter than I expected. Wolves passed us, some staring openly, some pretending not to. I could feel the tension beneath their skin.
They didn’t trust me, and I knew that they shouldn’t. I wouldn’t trust me if I was in their place either.
But they didn’t lu
