The Truth Beneath Her Name
The silence after the balcony incident followed Katelyn everywhere. It clung to her long after the celebration ended.
Long after the music died. Long after, the packhouse finally fell quiet beneath the weight of midnight.
No one spoke openly about what happened, but she felt it in the tension thickening through the halls. Warriors doubled patrols before dawn.
But she knew in her heart that what bothered her about the balcony incident was different from what bothered everyone else.
Elders whispered behind closed doors. The guards stationed outside the Alpha wing changed every hour now instead of every three.
Fear had entered the pack. And somehow, everyone seemed to believe it entered because of her.
Katelyn stood beside her bedroom window, staring into th
