*Ella’s POV*
The night was quiet—too quiet. The kind of silence that pressed against your skin, making you feel like you were being watched—even when you knew you were alone.
The moon hung high, casting long shadows over the land, the cold light reflecting off the rippling surface of the pack’s lake. I walked the grounds, the crisp air biting at my skin.
Something tugged at me, something I couldn’t quite place. I had spent hours training, pushing my limits, trying to forget the heaviness of everything I had felt. But no matter how much I tried to focus on the present, my mind kept slipping back to Remo and that night—the night I had witnessed the man I had come to care for teetering dangerously on the edge of his own darkness.
It terrified me.
But it also made me more determined th
