Caleb
One week.
That was all it had been.
Just one week since I arrived in Blackthorn… and already, I felt like I belonged.
The wind was calmer here. The surroundings were clean, and full of life. The people were kind, surprisingly so.
The warriors greeted me with respect, the omegas smiled like I was family, and even the Elders, though stern, treated me with a level of courtesy I hadn’t expected.
After everything I had lost, everything I had endured… It was strange to feel welcome again.
To feel… human again.
Blackthorn wasn’t home, not yet. But it was something close. Something safe.
And I had Erick to thank for that.
The Alpha King hadn’t just saved my life, he’d saved my purpose. My dignity. My name.
If he hadn’t offered a hand when I was bleeding and broken, the Moonlight
