When Kael saw the seal, it was like a knife straight through his chest.
For a heartbeat, everything just froze.
No wind. No forest sounds. Even the animals fell quiet as his eyes locked onto the blood-red insignia burned into the old parchment.
Impossible, he thought.
His grip tightened, knuckles white.
No. Not impossible. Something worse. It was real.
A cold shiver ran down his back as memories he’d tried so hard to forget started pushing up from those dark places he’d buried them.
That seal only belonged to one group. And that group—well, they shouldn’t exist anymore.
But they did.
They were the kind who could take on Alphas, wipe out entire bloodlines, make people vanish from the history books.
Kael’s stomach turned.
“What is it?” Nyra’s voice broke the silence like snapping
