For a moment… I can’t breathe.
Not because of the cursed necklace digging painfully into my skin. Not because my wolf has been ripped out of me, as though someone carved a living piece from my chest.
But because of him.
Kei.
The man who freed me from my father’s magical cuffs and returned my wolf to me without hesitation.
The man I foolishly—stupidly—started to fall for.
The same man who has now replaced those cuffs with his own, stealing my wolf away once again.
His betrayal sits between us like a blade, twisting deeper with every second I look at him.
Because the truth—the one I hate admitting even to myself—is that I trusted him.
Not completely or blindly, but enough.
Somewhere between the arguments and the insults… between the fights and the relentless tension between us… I s
