I walked through the woods near Elias’s pack, the air thick with tension. The trees towered over me, their branches swaying gently in the wind, but my mind was far from peaceful. The soft rustling of leaves couldn’t drown out the storm raging within me. Betrayal. It was a word that had become all too familiar to me lately.
The sting of Magnus’s rejection still burned deep, and now, after all this time, I had learned of a new betrayal—one that cut deeper than any physical wound ever could.
Elias had always told me that I was safe here, that his pack would protect me. But how could I trust that when one of his closest advisors had been feeding information to Magnus? The knowledge gnawed at me, eating away at the fragile trust I had begun to build with Elias. Was I being used again? Was I s
