Power Over Pride

As Kane's ritual combat challenge echoes at dawn, Daxon accepts and the alphas clash in a fierce display that sends ripples of shared sensation through Sable's merged bonds, blending pain with explicit echoes of pleasure. Sable unleashes her growing goddess power to halt the brutal fight, insisting the rivals must unite as equals or the invading horde will destroy them all, but their reluctant truce leaves the packs dangerously divided.