Kaelen’s POV — .....

The forest was silent. Too silent. The kind of silence that crushed your chest and filled your veins with dread.

My wolf snarled restlessly beneath my skin, pacing, clawing, raging. Mate. Find her. She’s out there.

I’d been hunting for days — nights, too. Sleep meant nothing now. Food was tasteless. The moon offered no light worth following. Every path we took, every trace we found, led to nothing but ashes and fading scents.

Damien trailed behind me, ...