Kane’s POV
I couldn’t get the sight out of my head.
Ava, standing in the middle of the training ground, her chest heaving, sparks crawling over her skin. The dummy had been split clean in half, the ground scattered with broken wood.
I’d seen warriors fight with everything they had, seen Alphas destroy enemies with one blow but never like that. Never with that kind of raw, untamed force.
And it terrified me.
Not because I thought she’d hurt me but because I knew what would happen if the elders found out. They would twist this, they would say she was a threat. They would demand she be controlled or worse, removed.
I found her in her room later that night. She was sitting by the window, staring out into the dark forest. The moonlight lit her face, soft and calm, as if she hadn’t just tu
