Chapter 61

• The silence after Dante’s words stretched impossibly long, as if time itself hesitated to breathe.
• Across from him, Aria’s father did not speak right away. The warriors at his side flinched at the memory of war, of loss, of a hundred howls that would never again echo through the forests. And yet, they waited. All of them waited for Teryn, the elder Alpha of the foxblood lineage, the last pillar of a fading legacy.
• Then… he stepped forward.