Chapter 47. You’re Next

Daniel POV

So much had happened between us in fewer than twenty-four hours that my head was still reeling with it all. I had finally confessed the truth to Elizabeth—laid bare every fear and longing—and told her, with a pounding heart, how desperately I wanted her by my side. I’d poured out my guilt, my regret, and the overwhelming gratitude I felt when she agreed to give me the chance to make things right, to become the mate she truly deserved. Her response, that gentle, hopeful look in her green eyes, was the only answer I needed, but the magnitude of it all still threatened to overwhelm me.

When we found shelter inside the cave, I listened as she revealed secrets from her earliest days—horrors inflicted by others of her own kind. The things she described, the brutality she’d endured at the hands of those young she-wolves, left me stunned. I’d known that the world could be cruel, but I never could have imagined such calculated depravity among wolves—creatures I’d alway