Nathaniel
The wedding was supposed to be one of the happiest days of my life - a day filled with love, celebration, and the promise of a future I had barely dared to dream of. For a brief, shining moment, it had been. The vows I exchanged with Liam under the canopy of the forest, surrounded by our pack, were words etched into my soul. The memory of his smile, bright and filled with love, still lingered like the last rays of sunlight before a storm.
But now, all of it felt distant. Like a dream slipping through my fingers, replaced by the stark, gut-wrenching reality of what had followed. All I could recall, with a clarity that haunted my every waking moment, was the life draining out of my best friend.
Dylan.
The image of him falling was burned into my mind. The way his body crumpled a
