JAYDEN
The hospital walls had begun to feel like a cage. The longer I stayed, the more my wolf clawed inside me, demanding action. Catriona’s trembling voice haunted me—her fear, her hopelessness. Our son’s safety. I couldn’t just sit and watch.
I slid into my car, the engine rumbling to life beneath me, and drove with a single destination burning in my mind. Gabriel’s house.
The night air thickened as I approached his territory, his high gates looming like sentinels against the dark sky. My foot eased off the accelerator, the car slowing until it came to a complete stop just before them.
I got out, the gravel crunching beneath my boots. My eyes traveled over the steel and stone, cold and unyielding.
Abriel had slipped past all this—past Gabriel’s patrols. How? My stomach knotted. Wa
