Kael´s POV
The world around me carried a new weight, as if I were seeing it through the eye of a storm held back by force.
The fusion.
My wolf and Selene’s were no longer separate entities. They were inside me now, breathing as one. I could feel her essence beneath my skin, the warm hum of her energy woven into mine. And although something about that presence felt... different—like a familiar voice placed in the wrong body—I ignored it. I couldn’t afford doubt.
Not now. Not when my brothers could be dying.
“Are you ready, darling?” I asked.
“More than ever,” she answered. Her voice was silky, steady, with that vibration that made the air between us tighten.
We began the run toward our enemy’s castle. The leaves shifted with our passing, trees opening unseen paths as if they recogniz
