Chapter 46 – The Rescue Mission
The dawn after the raid broke cold and brittle, as though the very air resented its rising. Smoke still lingered low across the settlement, curling from the funeral pyres lit through the night. Wolves had fallen. Friends, brothers, sisters—their names whispered into the flames before the sky could swallow their memory.
But one name had not been spoken.
Aiden.
Because Aiden was not dead. He was taken.
And that truth was a blade twisting in the heart of the pack.
Seren felt it with every breath—the crackle of unease, the simmering of blame, the silence that pressed tighter around her shoulders than any chain. She stood on the edge of the gathering ground, her hands clenched at her sides as Kaelen spoke to the pack. His voice carried, strong despite the e
