KILLIAN’S POV.
The hallway was quiet as I walked back toward the guest rooms. Somewhere downstairs, I could hear distant voices from pack members still awake, but up here everything felt strangely still.
My jaw tightened as the witch Dorothy’s words replayed inside my head again.
“The backlash could kill her.”
I still could not fully understand it.
An Alpha command strong enough to bind someone permanently to a territory?
That was not normal.
That was punishment.
Brutal punishment.
I frowned slightly as I continued walking.
What exactly had the omega done?
Nothing about her made sense anymore.
At first, I thought she was simply an annoying omega who accidentally complicated my life. Reckless. Stubborn. Trouble. And everything I don't need in my life right now.
But now…
Now I
