Chapter 40

**Chapter 40**

**Nathan’s POV**

For a brief, disorienting moment, I found myself gasping for breath. The very fabric of reality seemed to shift, tilting precariously as my wolf roared to life within me, a tempest of anger and betrayal.

She signed it.

My fingers tightened around the hard cover of the folder, the material creaking under the pressure of my grip. My eyes darted across the page once more, each word cutting deeper than the last, a relentless assault on my heart.

A low, primal growl escaped my lips before I could suppress it, the sound reverberating in the stillness of the room. The pen I had been holding shattered in my grasp, ink splattering across my palm like a dark stain marking my despair.

Peter.