Chapter 143

Nora

The forest waited.

I stripped behind the ancient oak with fingers that wouldn't stop shaking, each piece of clothing falling away like another layer of protection I couldn't afford to lose. The morning air kissed my bare skin, and I wanted to laugh at the absurdity of it all—here I was, about to shift for only the second time in my life, for an Alpha who belonged to someone else.

But Saur had