"The battlefield isn't just where wars are fought it's where love is tested, broken, and sometimes, rebuilt. And sometimes, the fiercest fight is the one you wage in silence, with the one you hold closest."
MARCUS'S POV
The silence of the Silverback Forest was a psychological weapon. It had been nearly eight hours since the King, Alaric, and Elias had vanished into the sealed passage, and the waiting had become a physical agony. My mind, usually a fortress of cold logic, was besieged by worst-case scenarios, a thousand tactical deaths for my Alpha King and his Mate. The nature of the King's mission into the deep forest was deliberately vague, a hunt for Vorath's hidden command hub, but the resulting silence was deafening.
