IRIS POV - CHAPTER 73
I should have stayed with them.
The thought followed me down the hallway, not loud, not demanding, but persistent enough that I couldn’t shake it, settling somewhere in the back of my mind as the noise from the main room faded into a dull hum behind me. There was nothing visibly different about the pack house, nothing I could point to and explain, but the shift I had felt earlier hadn’t disappeared. If anything, it had settled deeper, like it had found somewhere to anchor itself.
I kept walking.
Turning back would have meant explaining it, and I didn’t have anything solid enough to give them yet. A feeling wasn’t enough. A voice in my head wasn’t something I could present without it becoming something bigger than I was ready to face.
The corridor stretched ahead,
