CHAPTER TWENTY OF TWO: Cold Protection
Kaira’s pov
The courtyard did not celebrate victory. They watched it.Blood moon was gone, the boundary secured, the wounded carried away.
But the pack did not leave . Wolves stood in tight corners , whispering and gossiping occasionally glancing toward the space where Alpha Liam and I still stood.
What they had seen could not be unseen.
Liam turned to the warriors first. “Stand down,” he ordered. “Return to posts. Report injuries to the healers.”
They obeyed, but slowly. Reluctantly. Eyes followed us as they moved.Then he turned to me.
“You will come with me,” he said.
There was no affection in his voice . No reassurance.Only command.
MI nodded and followed without a word.
We didn’t go to the Alpha office.
He led me to the old strategy
