Callie’s POV
The vibration didn’t stop immediately.
After tearing through the territory like a brutal wave born from the depths of the stone itself, it continued resonating beneath our feet in an almost imperceptible way, like the echo of something gigantic slowly shifting beneath the territorial core. Even from a distance, I could feel the wolves growing restless again—hurried footsteps crossing upper corridors, orders moving between enforcers, doors slamming shut far away. But the worst part wasn’t the movement.
It was the direction.
Everything seemed to be reacting toward me.
And they knew it.
I saw it in the Alpha’s expression when we returned to the main core shortly after Jonas and Kael’s conversation, in the unbearable silence that fell over the room when the pressure concentr
