Restoring the Bite

Lyra

The auditorium hums with unease long before Declan takes the podium. I can feel it in my chest, the ripple of tension running through the pack bond. They don’t know what’s coming, not yet, but they can sense change, and change can make a pack restless.

I sit on the stage with the others. Caleb steady as ever, Zahra tight-shouldered beside him, Ember perched sideways across Cassian’s lap like