The silence weighed like a stone.
My breathing echoed in my ears as I stood firm, surrounded by a circle of wolves who wouldn't take their eyes off me. I could feel their astonishment, their disbelief. They couldn't believe what they were seeing.
Connor looked at me as if I were a ghost. Lucian, his brow furrowed, barely concealed the fury in his eyes. And Kael... his expression was unreadable, but I caught the faint glint of satisfaction in his gaze.
"Stop this." My voice rang out clear and firm, breaking the tension. "No more people have to die."
A murmur rippled through the warriors.
Lucian was the first to react, his posture rigid, his jaw clenched.
"Stop this?" His voice was low but sharp as a knife. "Do you even know what you're asking, Elise?"
I held his gaze.
"I'm asking fo
