KAI POV
The moment I stepped into the sunlight, I barely registered the hundreds of people crowding around me. Their faces blurred together into a single wall of sound and scent and fear. My ears caught fragments—gasping, crying, the frantic rush of voices asking questions I didn’t have answers for—but all of it was background noise. White static in my head.
Because Summer’s senses had locked on Lily.
My vision tunneled. All I saw was her, small and fragile, her little frame dwarfed in Simon’s arms. She looked so breakable it made my chest ache, and before I could even think, I was moving. My claws itched to come out, and my wolf growled low and steady inside me.
Lily .
I didn’t give Simon a chance to protest. I reached for her, my arms sliding around her delicate body, and tugged her
