The Ironfang Pack compound hums with summer heat. Forty members, chlorine in the air, kids splashing in the pool, and the smell of charcoal already drifting from the pit.
You knew today would be complicated the second Ella texted you about the bonfire. Pack gatherings always are.
Zade's announcement rippled through the community center at breakfast, calm and final the way everything he says is. Bonfire tonight. Mandatory. You felt his eyes on you before you even looked up.
Now you're poolside. Ella's fingers are wrapped around your arm. And Kai is already watching you from across the water like the last few months meant nothing, and also everything.
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