CHAPTER 33 —The Hour It Broke
Peter
I did not tell anyone when I left or where I was going, no one needed to know, especially not the council.
There were things expected of an alpha, unspoken standards, even if they were not stated in the law. An Alpha was not supposed to seek guidance in shadows, but I was done pretending the light was enough.
The seer did not live within pack territory, she never had, witches, oracles, seers, whatever name people preferred, rarely embedded themselves within wolf politics. They preferred the edges, and literally they lived in spaces in-between pack territories.
And so I rode alone before dawn, the sky still dark, mist hung low over the forest floor, clinging to the roots of ancient trees like restless spirits unwilling to rise.
The air was so cold i
