Kaelira’s POV
“You’re a target everywhere.” The words didn’t echo. They settled quietly.
Like something that had been waiting for me to finally hear it out loud.
I didn’t react immediately. My gaze stayed on him, steady, searching his expression for anything that suggested exaggeration or strategy, but there was nothing there except certainty.
He wasn’t provoking me this time, and he wasn’t testing me either. Whatever he had seen outside the territory had already confirmed it for him.
Which meant this wasn’t a warning.
It was a fact. My fingers curled slightly at my sides before I forced them to relax. Not out of fear, not even out of tension, but because I could feel it building again beneath my skin, that quiet hum of something that didn’t stay dormant anymore.
It didn’t surge u
