KILLIAN POVThe wind carried the sharp bite of pine and distant rain as I stepped onto the overlook. This was the day before everything changed, and I knew it in my bones the way a wolf knows when the moon is about to pull hardest. Jordan stood alone at the edge, silhouetted against the fading light, his posture straight but carrying that familiar weight. I had waited long enough. No more circling. No more interruptions.“Jordan,” I said, my voice rougher than I intended, gravel from years of holding everything back.He turned slowly, those eyes meeting mine without surprise. A faint nod, like he’d been expecting me. “Killian.”I closed the distance, stopping just close enough that the heat of him cut through the chill air. My hands flexed at my sides, itching to do something—clench, reach, anything—but I kept them still. This conversation had been building since Chapter 37, layer by layer, fight by fight, through every moment where words almost broke free only to get swallowed by cha
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