Chapter 76 Recovery And Judgment

• Alina didn’t wake for two days.
• Kaden sat beside her bed, watching her chest rise and fall. Mother Elara had stitched her wounds again, wrapped her ribs, set her dislocated shoulder. The old woman had worked through the night, muttering curses about stubborn wolves and people with death wishes.
• “She’ll live,” Mother Elara had said when she finished. “But she needs rest. Real rest. No fighting. No running. No stress.”