Alpha Adrian hadn’t slept in three days.
He sat deep within the heart chamber of the Nightfog clan’s forbidden temple, surrounded by shattered oath stones and broken bone relics. No moonlight reached this place—only his ragged breathing and the growl of a mind unraveling.
“She wasn’t supposed to leave…”
“She said she didn’t know… but she promised me… she wouldn’t let our child become someone else’s…”
The same memories looped over and over in his head.
Her in the wedding veil, descending the temple steps with steady breath and teary eyes. She had said: “I do.”
And later that night, still in white, she stood defiant—until he struck her across the temple wall. Blood on her lips. Her first miscarriage.
Now she was pregnant again.
But she didn’t know whose it was.
Or maybe… she simply
