“You have to stop this.”
I barely recognized my own voice as I gripped the earth beneath me. The wind howled, slamming against my face with a force that felt like it was trying to tear me apart. In the distance, the battle raged on—Kael’s pack fighting for their lives against an enemy that seemed to be born of pure darkness.
But here, in the heart of the storm, the children stood before me, their eyes glowing with a power they had only just begun to understand.
“You don’t understand,” one of them—my son—said, his voice shaking but determined. “We have to do this. We have no choice.”
I shook my head, feeling the weight of every single moment that had led us to this point. The sacrifice of my dreams for my brother. The heartbreak of being rejected by Kael. The years spent hiding in the s
