|Nieves| Calm down, Snow. There’s no way the Clarksons would betray my family. They needed us. They depended on us. So why—why would they destroy everything we built? What could they possibly gain by wiping out my family and my pack? The thought alone sent a sharp pang through me, but even through the haze of pain, I couldn’t stop my mind from unraveling the possibility. No. It’s not true. It can’t be. Yet… Kairos’s words echoed in my head like a broken record, relentless and unforgiving. Each time they replayed, my body trembled—not just with pain, but with something far worse. Anger. But the truth was... I barely knew the Clarksons. I had only met David a handful of times. My grandmother had trusted them, and that trust had become mine by extension. They were our allies. Not our