Kirk stopped at the border. He skidded to a halt so abruptly that the dirt beneath his boots scattered forward, his body leaning instinctively toward the fallen figure on the other side.
Julia.
She lay crumpled just beyond the invisible line, pale and unmoving, her dark hair spread across the forest floor like spilled ink.
If he reached out—just one step— He could take her. Drag her back. End this.
But he didn’t move. Because the land in front of him did not belong to Silver Fang.
Kirk had no authority over the land beyond the invisible border. Once Julia crossed into another pack's territory, she was no longer under Silver Fang's jurisdiction. Even Alpha Jason held no power here. No matter how badly Kirk wanted to reach out and pull her back, taking even a single step across that b
