Kael's POV.
I hadn’t eaten all day. Not that I’d even cared. Nothing mattered anymore. Not my pack. Not my parents. Not even the plans I’d made for Silvermark’s future. All that mattered was her. Aria. And the fact that she had walked away, leaving a part of me behind, twisting my chest with every step she took toward someone else.
The main hall was crowded with advisors and my parents, their faces a mixture of anger, disbelief, and worry. They looked at me like I’d failed. Maybe I had. But how could anyone understand what it felt like to have your mate slip through your fingers?
“Kael,” my father said, voice clipped. “Explain yourself. How did this happen? She… she’s with Cassian, isn’t she?”
I clenched my fists until my knuckles went white. My wolf roared inside me, wanting to charg
