Chapter 20:
The South-Eastern forest was dense, dark, and still held the bitter memory of winter. Alpha Elias Knight, running as Kael, his black wolf forms a magnificent shadow against the pre dawn gloom, moved at the head of his forces. The air thrummed with the anticipation of bloodshed.
His mind was split in two. One half was purely Alpha: focused on the execution of Lyra’s brutal, brilliant strategy the Bog Trap. The other half was Mate: the agonizing awareness of Lyra, running alone toward the opposite side of the territory, carrying the entire pack's future on her shoulders. The Mate bond was a constant, low-level ache, a distraction he had to fight with every fiber of his being.
She will survive, he repeated, a silent command hammered into his own consciousness. She is the solut
