Kai POV
The last couple of days have passed in a relentless blur—pack runs at dawn that leave my muscles burning, endless training drills under a merciless sun, and hours locked in the office drowning in reports that grow more troubling with every page. The air in here hangs heavy with Liora’s wildflower scent, sweet and intoxicating, wrapping around me like invisible chains. Atlas claws at my insides, fur rippling in a frenzy of need, his low growl constant and hungry. All I want is to clear the desk with one sweep, pin her against the wood, claim her lips, her body, her soul—the mate bond roaring like a storm I can barely contain. Aria’s presence calls to him, freer since the ruins, a siren song that makes my pulse thunder and my hands itch to tangle in her auburn braid, to feel her tre
