Alpha Kael POV

The corridor felt too narrow the moment I stepped out. My chest was tight, air moving through my lungs like glass shards. Every step I took away from her room was supposed to feel like victory, like I’d kept my distance, kept control but It didn’t.

I made it halfway down the hall before my wolf shoved against my ribs, claws raking at my insides. Go back. The voice wasn’t words, it was a pull, a demand, a primal snarl that didn’t understand politics or breeding contracts, I ignored it.

The double doors at the end of the hallway opened before I touched them. Two of my...