Chapter 6: The Unwelcome Guest

The shattered door was replaced by a new, heavier one, with a bolt on the outside. A not-so-subtle reminder of my status. A prisoner, once tolerated, now under explicit guard. Caleb’s words, “Your life is mine,”had become the bars of my cage. The pack treated me with a new, wary distance. They had heard the commotion, seen the King’s fury. I was no longer just a strange healer; I was a problem. In the suffocating silence that followed my failed rebellion, Orion became my only solace....