Silence in Kael's room was the antithesis of angry momentum that ran through the rest of Lupus Haven. The creaky leather of the ancient journal felt harsh beneath his fingers, a raw connection to a time he had made it his life's goal to escape. The pages were filled with accounts of border clashes settled in blood, of challenges of leadership decided on brawn, of a day in which the wolf was not a secret healer but a blatant force.
'Alfa Gideon met the challenger in the light of the full moon. The law was unyielding: there must be dominance, or the pack would break. No words were possible, only the unspoken language of tooth and claw. The den was protected, but the cost was the life of a son…'
Kael shut the book, the weight of its legacy inside him like a rock in his belly. He had become
