Chapter 300

• Elysia
• A year had passed since that night on the Stormridge grounds, and I found myself standing on the same balcony where Kade and I had once traded careful, guarded banter, back when neither of us was ready to admit how much the other had already come to matter.
• Below, the territory stretched out in the soft gold of early evening, Stormridge Pack thriving under leadership finally free of my brother-in-law's shadow, Ashbourne Group and Velmora Group operating as a single, unified force across a market that had once seemed determined to tear the family apart entirely.