Chapter 169

** Remy’s POV ** Dawn creeps in slowly. The forest outside the Midnight Pack’s border hums with life again, birds calling, wind shifting through the trees, but it’s wrong. Too quiet in the places that should be loud, too still where the world should move. I haven’t slept. None of us really have, but I didn’t even try. Every time I close my eyes, I see it… the flash of gold and silver light ripping through the clearing, the smell of burning air, the way my lungs filled again when I was sure they’d stopped for good. Paige. She did something none of us understand, something no wolf, human, or healer could explain. I should feel nothing but relief, but all I can think about is the look on Ryder’s face when he realised what she had done, awe and terror tangled together. Leo pads ahead of me, silent as always, his fur slick from the rain that fell before dawn. He shifts when we reach the ridge, stretching his neck until it pops. “Still no word from Brandon?” I shift too, and I shake my head.