Chapter 26: The Wolf's Challenge
Lyra's point of view
The council hall seemed smaller than it had ever been.
There were high stone walls around us with old symbols of law and power carved into them. But the air inside was thick and heavy because there were too many wolves pretending to be calm. I stood next to the elders of my pack, with my back straight, my chin up, and every part of me carefully arranged.
They saw Luna.
Not Lyra.
Not the omega who used to stand in a different hall and be torn apart by words.
Raine stood with his group on the other side of the room. He looked like he always did at meetings: calm, unreadable, and every inch the Alpha. If I hadn't learned to read the smallest signs, I would have missed the tension in his shoulders and the way his eyes kept sliding ba
