Allene's POV
The summons took three days to become real. We were overjoyed when the news was brought to us that the alpha council had finally approved our appeal. They were going to summon Leonard.
After three days of waiting, three days of pretending I wasn’t counting every breath between now and Leonard walking into the same room as me.
Three days of rehearsing strength while fear prowled quietly under my ribs.
Draven never said it, but I knew he was preparing for the possibility that the council would fail us. I saw it in the way he held meetings late into the night, in the patrol rotations doubling, in the way he never let me out of sight for long.
He wasn’t just preparing for Leonard.
He was preparing for war.
And I was preparing for something worse.
Closure on one hand, dest
