AURORA’S POV
The forest finally slowed around me. We had stopped to catch our breath, but the tension between us didn’t pause for a second. My knees ached, and my chest heaved, yet Alpha Caesar’s voice cut through the quiet like a blade.
“You had one mission, Aurora,” he snapped, pacing like a predator. “Destroy the dam. That’s it. Not this… chaos you created by releasing the others. Do you realize what you’ve done?”
I lifted my head, refusing to bow under his fury. “I did what was right,” I said, my voice steady. “The witches and fae didn’t deserve that fate. You weren’t the one deciding whether they lived or died.”
“Right?” Caesar barked, his eyes flashing. “Your ‘right’ will get us all killed. Alpha King Caleb will see this as war. The lycan kingdom, surrounded on all four borders—
