Chapter 127

Kaia POV

Morning came too quickly.

The sky was still painted in soft shades of grey when I woke, my chest heavy with a feeling I couldn’t shake. Something was wrong. Not loud, not obvious—just a tight pull beneath my ribs, like my wolf was pacing restlessly inside me.

I dressed quickly and stepped out into the corridor. The pack house was already awake, servants moving back and forth, warriors changing shifts. Everything looked normal, and yet… it wasn’t.

Lucian was ...