Jake's POV
Brielle's words haunted me.
"Figure out what you want, Jake."
She had looked me right in the eye when she said it, voice steady, expression unreadable. But I had seen the hurt beneath it. The frustration. The exhaustion.
She was done waiting for me to make a choice.
I didn’t know if I was capable of making it.
Because no matter how much I wanted to believe in her, no matter how much I tried to push away the whispers creeping into my head
The doubts were still there.
And they were getting louder.
The shift in my pack was subtle at first.
Quick glances. Muted conversations.
Nothing obvious. Nothing I could call out.
But I noticed.
The warriors, the patrol teams,hell, even the house staff,they were all watching her differently now.
Like she wasn’t just some outsider
