**Astrein’s POV**

From the moment Gaia stepped into my life, she had been a force of quiet strength, but watching her now—as Alpha of Snow Mountain, commanding respect from warriors who had every reason to doubt her—I couldn’t help but marvel at her transformation. It started small, those early days in Rose Heart: the Omega girl with fire in her eyes, training relentlessly under Audis’s grueling regime, proving her worth strike by strike. I remembered her first victory in the ...