Chapter 48 – Gavin’s Fury The storm broke over the forest long before dawn, its fury a mirror of the one building inside Gavin’s chest. Rain sheeted down through the canopy, drowning the earth, smothering the scents he relied upon. Yet none of it muted the rage pulsing in his veins. He ran anyway. Branches tore at his skin, mud clung to his boots, but nothing slowed him. His pack was gone—shattered, scattered, betrayed. His brother dead. His future ripped from him like flesh from bone. And for all of it, he saw only one face. Kaelen. Every step was a vow. Every breath was a curse. The Alpha had taken everything. Gavin burst through the tree line, collapsing against the hollow trunk of a fallen oak. His body trembled with exhaustion, but his fury was relentless, a beast that would not

