Lyra
The glow of our bond still pulsed faintly in my veins, a soft reminder of what had just happened between us. The angry fire that had consumed us was gone, leaving behind only the heavy hush of the council chamber and Killian’s weight still pressing into the table near me. For a moment, I thought maybe… just maybe, we had finally broken past the walls between us.
But then his voice shattered it.
“Lyra… how are you doing this?”
He looked at me with those sharp eyes, the Alpha’s eyes that could strip a wolf bare with a glance. He wasn’t asking about our bond or about us, he was asking about the barrier. The shimmering wall I had called forth without thought. The secret I had never intended him to see.
I froze, my body still flushed with the echoes of our intimacy, but inside, I tur
