Chapter 35: The Restraint Field's Reaction

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They took shelter beneath the trees at the edge of the clearing. Gideon had ordered the break in the same tone he used for everything else. Henrietta hadn't argued. She sat on a fallen stone near the roots of an old oak, shoulders still tight, a leather strip resting loosely in her open palm as if she were afraid to grip it too hard. Good. She needed her body to remember calm before her mind tried to fill the gaps. Gideon turned away under the pretense of checking the perimeter. No threats. No watchers. The pack was distant, their presence muted by the restraint field's fading him. He rested one hand against the trunk of a tree and let himself breathe. The field had answered her. Not dominance. Not aggression. Not even instinct in the way most wolves understood it. It was awarenes

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