Oliver – POV
The warm coffee mug in my hands is the only thing tethering me to the present while I wait for Eden to come back to the kitchen. Steam curls upward in lazy spirals, and I focus on it, because if I think too much about her, my thoughts turn chaotic.
Eden has overturned my life like a storm ripping through the forest—unpredictable, destructive, and yet somehow… necessary. She’s a walking contradiction: someone who came from nowhere, who shouldn’t even exist, yet here she stands. A force strong enough to make me question the one man I swore I’d follow into battle and die protecting—Ezekiel.
I'd never had an easy life, at least not until I met Ezekiel, an alpha I respected, someone who I thought I would follow until my last breath. I’ve always obeyed his orders without hesitati
