Ally’s POV
When I opened my eyes, I realized that I was back in the King Pack. In the guest bedroom I'd been staying in before sneaking out with Aiden to the Lake of Aten. I was wearing the dress I'd worn to leave the room and when I looked out the window, the streams of daylight pouring into the bedroom made me aware that it was well past dawn. Aiden was nowhere in sight.
Had I really seen Fae? Did the wolves not wonder where I was and why I didn't come out of my room the whole time? What if they'd entered the room and I wasn't here?
I shuffled into a sitting position, finally glancing at where my left hand was fisted. When I opened it, right on top of the scar where I'd cut my palm open for the blood oath to the queen, lay a stone.
There was nothing remarkable about it. The
