Kora’s POV
The day after the gala felt like it had come from another world entirely. The air was thick with silence, the kind that wraps itself around you when things are about to break but haven't quite yet. Edward was... quieter than usual. He stayed mostly in his office, handling business, making decisions with that cool, unshakeable calm. But I could feel his presence hovering in every room, like a constant reminder that I was never really alone.
I spent the morning with the pack’s healer, getting checked over just to be safe. I hadn’t mentioned the tension I felt in my body, the strange, aching weight at the back of my skull, but I could feel it growing with each passing day. The healer—an older woman named Mara, with kind, weathered eyes—had insisted on a few extra scans just to ma
