Chapter 181

Alaria

Smoke and fire painted the morning red.

And though I was fighting, though I wanted nothing more than to end all of this, this war, this rage and this fear, I knew that something in me told me that this was wrong.

The field that had once been forest was now a ruin of blackened trucks and blood-soaked snow. Wolves in human form fought through the haze, gunfire echoing like thunder against the mountains. The air stank of smoke and iron, of fury and loss.

And between it all, two men.

Liam and Darius.

The two brothers who had forgotten that they were once brothers.

They faced each other across the broken field, their bodies heaving, guns raised, eyes locked with the kind of hate that only once had been love.

I ran before I could think. The wind burned my lungs as I stumbled through the smoke, ignoring Kai’s shout behind me. My boots slipped on blood and ice. I didn’t care. I needed to stop this before they finished what the wo