Chapter 56

• “You have to make a choice, Ava,” Crown's voice was barely a whisper in the chaos around me. His grip on my arm tightened, pulling me back from the edge where I had been standing, my legs trembling. We had been fighting for hours—our bodies battered, our energy drained, but the battle wasn't over. Not yet.
• I shook my head, my vision blurry, my thoughts a haze. I had just come to terms with the fact that Samuel was the traitor. He had betrayed me, my family, everything I believed in—and now Valen was coming for the final strike. My breath caught as my eyes swept over the field, searching for any sign of Crown, Rogan, or the rest of our pack. I had to make sure they were safe.
• But there was something else. Something... pressing. Something I couldn’t shake. A feeling that gnawed at me, deeper than any physical pain I had endured in the last few days. A weight I couldn’t explain.