Louis’s POV…….

The celebration was already in full swing by the time I stepped back into the courtyard.

Music. Laughter. Lanterns glowing like fireflies. Wolves dancing, drinking, and howling at the sky. It was warm, alive, everything this pack had been starving for.

But all the noise only made me feel… strange.

Unsteady.

Because I wasn’t part of this pack. Not truly. Not yet. I was a guest, an outsider, a wandering Alpha with a baby strapped to my chest and far too ...