The way to the southern borders brought strong, painful waves of nostalgia to Rashel. As she made her way to the Fortis pack, she saw how different it had become. Almost as if it belonged to outlaws, there was no order anymore. Seth had begun to lose everything even before his time was up.
It had been a year since she’d walked out of this place. No, she’d been accused and thrown out, discarded and condemned to die without mercy. All while Viola stood and watched. Seth didn’t even think twice as she pronounced judgement on her. A woman he had been married to for years. But it wasn’t her fate to waste away, and that was precisely why she had come here.
Rashel pushed all the bitter memories from her mind. She didn’t need them, especially not now. She wasn’t here for nostalgia or worse, reco
