= Mikael =
I should have been…roaming around today. See if…Amara was adjusting around. Instead, I dragged in a slow breath and felt it sink heavy in my chest as my footsteps echoed louder with every stride toward the council hall beneath the Alpha House.
The Elders were waiting.
They hadn’t asked for my presence. There had been no polite request, no warning wrapped in courtesy. They had summoned me.
All five of them.
That alone was enough to sour my mood. When the entire council called a meeting without notice, it was never about something minor. It was never about protocol or routine. It was always about power. About control. And more often than not, about a single person who seemed to exist solely to disrupt the fragile balance they clung to.
Me.
As I moved through the stone corri
