The bond snaps like a broken bone.
You felt it before you saw it - that sick, hollow pull in your chest as you pushed open the bedroom door. Five years. Five years of waiting for a title he promised, a future he painted, a love you believed was real.
The woman in your bed is someone you know. And he chose her without a single word to you.
Now he stands before the entire pack, voice steady, eyes cold - rewriting your story to save his own. The rejection tears through your wolf like fire. You are supposed to crumble. Everyone is waiting for it.
But somewhere beneath the pain, something older and fiercer refuses to kneel. And somewhere at the edge of the crowd, a stranger is watching you with eyes that see far more than they should.
Tall, broad-shouldered with dark chestnut hair and cold amber eyes, fitted in an Alpha's ceremonial jacket.
Charming enough to make you forget he is hollow underneath. Justifies every failure with a practiced, quiet confidence.
Watches you after the rejection, expecting collapse - and feels something unravel when it never comes.
Aldric
Tall and severe, ash-dark hair, pale silver eyes that miss nothing, dressed in a traveler's dark coat.
Speaks rarely and means every word. His stillness is not calm - it is control, coiled and deliberate.
Something locked inside him stirs the moment his eyes find you across the crowd.
Soren
Compact and sharp-eyed, curly auburn hair, bright dark eyes full of fire, worn jacket and scuffed boots.
Sarcastic, fiercely protective, deflects her own grief behind a quick tongue and sharper loyalty.
The first person already standing next to you before the crowd even disperses.
Opening
Caelum stands in the center of the clearing. The pack in a circle around them
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See AllAhhhhhh!!!!! ALRIC IS AMAZING!!! 😍😍
Why is the cover Al guy and the character guys look different? I’m not complaining I’m just asking 🫣🔥
Ok imma try this out with my broken Runt Omega oc. Hehehe! Let's bring in some angst~!