If you read Part One, you remember the moment. *Don't go.* Two words. Not a command. Not a king speaking to a subject. Something else — something that stopped me in the middle of a dark hallway and made me forget, for just a second, every reason I had to walk away. Part Two begins exactly there. The forbidden east wing opens. Selene's room. A silver ring left behind like a message. And the memory fragments that have been haunting me since I touched it finally begin to make sense — because I'm not just someone who smells like the Wolf King's vanished mate. I'm her *heir*. The next True Anchor in a line that stretches back further than anyone told me. When I stood up in front of the Elder Conclave and called out a lie, silver light poured from my hands. A so-called Blank, glowing in front of every pack leader in the territory. No one had anything to say after that. At first, yes. But not anymore. That's what Kael told me, his hand against my cheek, and I understood — he came looking for me with one purpose. That purpose changed. So did mine. I came here with nothing. Somewhere along the way, I started thinking about what I'd lose if I left. But there's a problem. A True Anchor whose power is drawn out before it's fully released doesn't survive. I know this now. I'm going north anyway — to find Selene, to face Vessa, and to finally answer the question I've been carrying since the night a wolf king stepped out of the dark and said he'd been searching for me. Every thread gets pulled. Every question gets its answer. And in the end, I look Kael in the eye and say the thing that matters most. *I choose you. Not because you claimed me. Because I choose you.* This was never a story about a girl who got rejected. It was always a story about a girl who finally figured out what she was made of.
