ra

" Kaelen's voice echoed in my mind the next morni

's scent lingering in the clinic down the hill. He was with her. Without

ining grounds. This was where he had first taught me to fight, his large hands guiding my sta

en I s

tiently showing her how to read the direction of the wind, his head bent close to h

ce soft, "I don't feel the weight of being an Alph

share his burden, to be his partner in leadership. But

raphina stood there, her eyes wide with a flic

one of the ones used for climbing practice on the high platform,

ling rock. I stumbled and fell as the boulder crashed to the ground where I had been stand

ry, landed on me. He didn't ask what happened. He didn'

me. It wasn't just a voice; it was a physical wave of power that threw me back se

e moved with a speed I'd never seen before, a blur of motion as he raced ba

a rare healing herb, Moonpetal, was low. It wasn't a

ansfer," he had comm

ngerous! It will drai

e clinic walls. "If anything happens to her,

I watched as his own life force was siphoned away to heal her

ubborn ember of love I held