Elara POV
No one spoke immediately after that and with the way the entire room was silent, it was as though the room was deciding what to do with the words I had just put in front of them.
I could see it in the way their shoulders tightened, in the way their gazes flickered between each other before settling back on me, sharper now, more calculating than before.
They weren’t just listening anymore.
They were assessing.
“That may be true,” the first elder said slowly, his voice careful in a way that told me he was choosing each word with more caution now, “but that doesn’t change the fact that we are responsible for the safety of this pack.”
There it was again.
Not accusation.
Not yet.
Just the foundation of it.
Kael didn’t move beside me, but I felt the shift in him, th
