KAI
I never forgot!
I never believed revenge could feel this cold.
It wasn’t fire. It wasn’t fury…
It was something quieter — darker… like a slow poison that never left your veins no matter how many times you tried to purge it. Every smile I gave Cardan was a reminder of what his father did to mine. Every time he called me “brother,” I remembered the night my father’s blood soaked the dirt while his father stood over him — sword still dripping red.
They said Cardan’s father was just doing his duty, that my father had betrayed the pack.
Lies.
My father had only questioned the old Alpha’s greed — the way he used wolves like pawns. For that, he was branded a traitor, and killed without trial.
And so I grew up swearing that one day, the Montessoris would know what betrayal really felt
