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Torak felt a burning gaze pressing on his back, before he saw it.
Everything in him tightened. His wolf stirred, alert, and low in his chest. His wolf growled in warning. The presence he felt did not belong to the rhythm of the dance, or the softness of the moment they had just shared.
His gaze shifted, and then he saw him.
Alpha Blackfen stood across the hall, with his eyes already locked on them like he might tear them apart anytime soon.
Torak stilled.
The air changed, and his first instant was to protect Adele. It felt ridiculous protecting her from her father, but that was all he gathered at the moment.
Everything that had been soft, hidden, and dangerously intimate between him and Adele… snapped into something exposed.
And in the next second, Alpha Blackfen moved. He moved fast, at the speed of lightning.
