SELENA’S POV

Training the cubs had been bringing a strange kind of peace to me over the days. For a while now, the heaviness that the past had planted in my chest disappeared, replaced by the innocence of their laughter. Today was no different, as I knelt beside a trembling pup, coaxing her through the transformation back to her human form. Her small body shimmered, and with Kai’s soothing encouragement, she shifted back, breathless but she was able to eventually.

“Well done, Mira,” I ...