Chapter 158

Liam

The night pressed heavy against the safe house walls, thick with the scent of smoke, rain, and wolves who didn’t sleep anymore. Wolves who have been looking, trying to find a lead, trying to get anything that would bring her to me…

I hadn’t been back to the pack grounds in two days. Couldn’t. The place felt like a coffin, every corner echoing with her scent, her voice, her absence. Instead, I came here, neutral land. A bunker built years ago during the border wars. Concrete walls, old metal tables, and a quiet that hummed with tension.

Kai was already there, waiting with two others, old allies from packs that didn’t trust easily. Alpha Rourke of the Redstone and Damian of the Hollow Ridge. Both of them owed me favors. Tonight, I intended to cash every one.

Rourke leaned back in his chair, his bulk filling half the room. “You’re sure she’s not just…”

“Don’t,” I cut him off, my voice low. “Don’t finish that sentence. She is alive, and he has h