~My True Partner~

LUCAN

I woke before dawn, the cold creeping under my skin as I laced up my boots. Something about the night had left me tense. The alarms had been quiet for hours, but that didn’t mean anything. Kian was out there, somewhere, testing us. Testing the pack. Testing me.

Ivy came into the strategy room before I could leave. She looked tired, eyes half-closed, hair messy, but there was fire there, the same stubbornness I’d seen a hundred times before.

“You’re going out ...