Rome
The truck ride back to the cabin was silent.
Jackson was driving too fast, gripping the wheel like it had personally offended him. Travis sat in the back, unusually quiet, arms crossed, staring out the window as if it might offer answers.
I sat in the passenger seat, still trying to breathe.
Every second that passed felt like a countdown ticking in my chest. Like I was moving away from something I’d been waiting for my entire life.
No one said anything.
Not at first.
They were waiting on me. But I didn’t have words.
Because I didn’t understand what had just happened.
We’d gone to find Zara. To protect her. To observe the girl we’d spent years preparing for—the one we were trained to support when her wolf awakened, the one I thought would be tied to me by fate.
But fate had o
