Kieran's POV
Since the moment I could walk, my father told me who I was.
"You are the eldest. You are the Alpha. You do not falter. You cannot make mistakes. Ever!"
Those words are a part of me, as much as my bones. I bore the silence and the burden of a crown that had not yet touched my head but was already pressed on my shoulders.
I did not complain or rebel. I simply became what I needed to be.
Until her.
Aisla.
I had seen her a thousand times before. Small, quiet and tucked into corners like she was trying to disappear. The kind of girl I was taught to overlook. And I had always done that.
But after my bond with her, it was like waking from a dream. She was suddenly the only one I could see. The only thing I could not ignore.
And I hated the Goddess for it.
