Chapter 56

Nicolas Pov

Royal pack

For weeks, my calls to Flora had gone unanswered. Every night, I dialed her number, only to be met with silence or the mocking hum of an automated response. It gnawed at me, that silence. Flora had never ignored me before-not like this. The distance felt heavier than any war I'd ever trained for.

But that morning, when my father's steward delivered a clipped message-"Your presence is required in the Alpha's study. Immediately."-I felt a different kind of ...