# Chapter 45 – Kael's POV: The True Mate Claim
I was eating dinner when it hit me.
Pain shot through my chest like someone stabbed me. My fork dropped. Food went everywhere. The whole dining hall went quiet.
"Alpha?" My beta Marcus jumped up. "What's wrong?"
I couldn't talk. Couldn't breathe. Something was pulling at me from inside. Something I never felt before.
Then the howling started.
Not from my pack. From everywhere else. Scared howls. Panic howls. Like every wolf for miles just saw death coming.
But that wasn't what got me.
It was her.
I could feel her. Clear as day. Like she was right here in this room with me. But she wasn't. She was far away. Real far.
"Get the seer." I stood up fast. Chair fell over. "Now."
Marcus ran out. I walked to the big window. Outside my pack was running around. Confused. Scared. They felt it too. That wave of power that just hit everything.
But they didn't feel what I felt.
The mate bond.
