Life in the Moonfire pack felt strange after Alpha Joseph’s orders. The Crescent Vale warriors were still at the border, but Jax, Zack, Hazel, and I had learned to ignore them. Or at least, we pretended to.
Every day, it felt like walking on eggshells. We trained, we worked, we ate, we lived our lives — but we all carried the same thought in the back of our minds: Crescent Vale was watching. They weren’t attacking, not yet, but their presence was constant, like a shadow stretching across everything.
Jax and I decided to focus on school again, but only when it was necessary. Exams and tests were all we attended. That way, we could graduate on time, but we didn’t have to sit in classrooms with everyone staring at us, whispering about the “wolfless wonder” and the Alpha’s son who stuck by h
