KAEL.
I was barely awake trying to prepare myself for the task ahead for today when a messenger came to inform me that I'd been summoned.
The summons came without warning.
"Alpha, you're needed at the temple. Immediately." The messenger’s voice carried an urgency that made my wolf snap to attention. "The pack priest has called an emergency assembly."
"On what grounds?"
"He didn't say. But the elderly are gathering. And…" He paused, "Kieran is already there."
Every instinct screamed danger. "Assemble my guard. We leave now."
The temple sat at the heart of pack space, a stone structure older than my bloodline. By the time I arrived, guards lined the entrance. Not my guards but the temple guards, their expressions carefully neutral but their postures tense.
Inside, the main chamber wa
