Chapter 170

Dawn came without ceremony.

No horns. No bells. Just light slipping over the trees, touching the roofs of the pack like a question rather than an answer.

Kaia woke before Caleb.

For a moment, she lay still, listening—to the steady rhythm of his breathing, to the land beyond the walls, to the quiet inside her chest where chaos used to live. The curse was still there. It had not vanished. It never would.

But it was… calm.

She rose quietly and stepped outside.

The pack was ...