Ravena's POV
I didn't wait for Lucien's answer. I quickly turned away from him, my chest tight with emotions I couldn't name.
Pain. Anger. Grief. They were all tangled together, a knot I could not untie.
I looked at Kael instead. He was watching me with something that looked almost like understanding.
"The pain will never go away," I said quietly, my voice steady despite the storm inside me. "It will always be there. Etched into my heart. A scar that will never fade."
Kael nodded slowly. "Trust me I know."
"We have both lost different things," I continued, meeting his gaze. "You lost your brother. Your father. Your pack's honour. I lost my mother. My father. My brothers. My entire clan. But we were both shaped by that suffering. Molded by it. Changed by it."
"Indeed," he said simpl
