Darius POV
Something wasn’t right. The thought had been sitting in the back of my mind for days now, quiet, patient, waiting for me to stop ignoring it.
Tonight, it refused to stay quiet.
I stood by the window, staring out at the training grounds below. Wolves moved in formation, their movements sharp, controlled. Predictable.
Unlike everything inside this pack lately.
My jaw tightened.
Unlike her.
Kaelira.
The name came uninvited.
Unwanted.
And yet…
It stayed.
She had looked at me differently.
Not with pain.
Not with anger.
Not even with the quiet desperation I had grown used to ignoring.
No.
She had looked at me like I didn’t matter.
My fingers curled slightly at my sides.
That look…
It shouldn’t have affected me.
But it did.
More than I wanted to admit.
A soft kno
