Kaelen’s POV
Nothing broke the silence of the cabin, but the shrubbery crackle and the irregular breath. Lyra was on the wooden table under me. Her skin was laid down and her eyes… wide with shock. I was still with her, her body still straining around me. .
It had been three years in the waiting. I'd spent three years in the deepest woods, watching and keeping her so that there would be no rogues to hurt her.
"Why?" Lyra asked, thundering with a raspy voice. “You. How long have you been waiting for?
I bent and kissed one of her hair strands that had been soppy. "You weren't ready, Lyra. You've been hurt while you were leaving your old pack. If I had come to you for long, you would have seen me as another rogue or some enemy. I have to get you strong again. I want to turn you into the
