Caleb
Silence hung in the air like smoke after a battlefield fire, thick and suffocating.
I sat there, my body rigid, my hands pressed against my knees, listening to every word Erick poured out.
It wasn’t just his words, it was the way his voice cracked, the way his shoulders sagged, the way his strength seemed to drain out of him with each confession.
The Alpha King, the man the world revered and feared, had peeled back his armor in front of me.
He was showing me a side no one ever thought existed, a side most would never believe.
My chest tightened. My heart ached in ways I hadn’t expected.
I had always thought Erick was untouchable, that he was steel forged into flesh, too proud to bend, too strong to break.
But watching him now, I realized how wrong I’d been. He wasn’t imm
