Liana couldn’t shake the elder’s warning.
Run.
That single word wouldn’t leave her alone, still echoing in her mind long after she left Rowan’s cabin.
Out here, the woods around Silver Crest felt colder than usual. The shadows between the trees looked alive, like something was watching her as she followed the moonlit path back to pack grounds.
The Queen has returned.
The prophecy is awakening.
Every Alpha will either kneel… or try to kill you.
Her chest went tight. Too much. Just a few weeks ago, she was just another wolf in the pack. Now, apparently, she was at the center of some prophecy strong enough to shake the whole werewolf world.
And Kael. He’d known about it the whole time.
That stung more than she wanted to admit. Because honestly, after everything—the rejection, the sec
