Caged

Kiran Rao has been lying to the Lycan League for two years. Every shift he has ever made on the ice was on tape, timed, and paid for, and now the opposing team's alpha has exposed him in front of a full arena with a challenge he cannot answer. Ines Calder has been the league's only human publicist for four years and she has never once seen a wolf culled. She is about to. The hearing will strip Kiran's contract, his pack, and the only life he has managed to build, unless Ines can prove that what the council is doing is not discipline — it is disposal. Kiran tells her to drop it. She doesn't. Somewhere between a dead car battery and a hostile council room, the angriest wolf in the league meets the sunniest human in it, and both of them stop hiding. The shift is coming. So is the verdict.