The place was silent. Nova broke into a radiant smile, and the other werecats looked around in awe as if that power would return. But I knew it wasn’t gone; it seeped deep into these lands.
Ezra’s arm was around me, and he let out a long breath into my hair. “That was… amazing,” he whispered. “Terrifying, but amazing,” I swear he almost shuddered, but I knew it was out of worry, not true fear.
I motioned to the packhouse, but Nova shook her head. “The packhouse was not built by us, but there is something beneath that has belonged to our kind. I will wait until the other Alphas have left before I look for it.”
I ignored my curiosity for now, hoping she would share what she spoke of with me later, and simply told her, “As you wish.”
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“If you need more time, I will give you as long
