ZEUS
Nobody moved.
Nobody breathed, and the forest itself seemed to hold its breath with us.
I stood frozen, my lungs burning, my eyes locked on the small, blood-stained white wolf lying unconscious in the dirt.
We all just stared at the impossible, a wolf form that had not only survived the Stormfang forest but had clawed its way back to us.
My heart was still pounding hard enough to hurt.
I couldn’t stop staring.
Nyx.
It had to be. I know those eyes anywhere, seen it for that one impossible second where she’d looked straight at me before collapsing.
I felt the ripple of shock move through the council like a physical wave. Around me, the council had become statues. Not one of them seemed capable of processing what had just happened.
The High Priestess slowly lowered the staff s
