Chapter 105 – The Role He Never Chose
POV: Kael
Kael had always trusted certainty.
Not blind certainty.
Not arrogance.
The kind earned through experience.
The kind forged through responsibility.
An Alpha who hesitated too often endangered everyone around him. Leadership required confidence, even when the path ahead wasn't entirely clear. There were times when decisions had to be made before all the answers existed.
Kael had learned that lesson young.
He had spent years carrying the weight of lives that depended on him.
Years learning to trust his instincts.
Years learning the difference between fear and intuition.
Yet recently, certainty had become difficult to find.
Not because the fortress faced an external threat.
Not because enemies gathered beyond their borders.
Because every answer seemed to create new questions.
And almost all of those questions led back to Liora.
The change had been gradual at first.
Easy to ignore.
Easy to explain away.
