Orion’s POV
“We’ll carry them,” Klaus ordered, his voice as hard and immovable as the mountain itself. “We leave no one.”
There was no hesitation in his tone, no space for debate. His word was law, and even if anyone had the strength left to argue, they wouldn’t. I wouldn’t.
A good leader carries the burden of every life under his command. And Klaus—Alpha of Onyx, mate of my cousin Aria—was nothing if not a good leader. The kind who would march straight into death before abandoning one of his own.
I clenched my jaw, saying nothing, though a part of me wanted to curse at the situation we had walked into. From the beginning, this mission had reeked of a suicide run. I had followed anyway, thinking my fire could give us an edge. Now I felt the weight of my decision pressing down on me hea
