= Amara =
To be honest, I didn’t even understand why the words were spilling out of me. Maybe it was pride clawing its way to the surface. Maybe it was the anger I had buried so deeply it now demanded to be heard. Or maybe—just maybe—it was the last stubborn, desperate piece of me that refused to let my story be twisted into someone else’s villain narrative.
Because the moment he accused me of betraying my former pack, something inside me cracked. A fine, delicate fracture that split straight down the center of my chest.
And when I learned that Mikael, the Alpha of Veyrath himself, actually believed the lies… lies he must have plucked from whatever gutter they crawled out of—I felt my blood ignite. It simmered, boiled, sparked until every breath burned.
“I can’t forgive her. I can’t… f
