*Chapter 29:
ALESSIA
Five days. Five days of tense, careful peace since I walked out of the war room and left three Alphas standing around a table with a contract between them. Five days since I told them I was staying forever, but only if they stood as one pack and not three separate wolves pulling in different directions. Five days since the corridor ran red and I forced them to choose me over their own pride, and for the first time since I arrived at BloodNight, the silence in the halls wasn’t the silence before violence. It wasn’t the silence before a storm. It was the silence of three men holding their breath, trying not to breathe wrong and shatter the fragile thing we had built between us.
It was an illusion. A beautiful, dangerous illusion.
I could feel it in the bond, even if
