The Shift
Chapter 28 Kael pov I don’t feel the change like a shock. It’s softer than that. Like waking up and realizing the air is lighter, that something heavy you didn’t know you were carrying has been set down without asking your permission. The pack lines are still there. But they’re… looser. Less rigid. Less afraid. I stand on the balcony overlooking Rowan’s territory, hands resting on the rail, listening. Wolves move below, unsettled but not panicked. No elder pressure humming through the ground. No invisible hand tightening every instinct. Choice has entered the system. And nothing will ever be the same again. “She did it,” Amina says quietly behind me. I don’t turn. I already know it’s her. “Yes,” I reply. “Without meaning to.” “That’s how it always happens with Binders,
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