After leaving the forest, Amelia followed Darren back to the packhouse of Green Lake.
The electric power had already been fixed by one of Darren’s warriors. When they walked into the cluster of warm lights in the middle of the dark night, everything around them looked cozy and homely.
The house was still full of dust, empty with nobody in it, but with Darren together, Amelia just felt she was back in her long-lost home.
Darren held her hand the whole way, taking her to the fourth floor. There was the pack’s Alpha and Luna’s bedroom first, and then his young sister Emily’s, and then his.
“Em was already six years old by then, but she was still afraid of sleeping alone. Every night, I must stay here beside her bed, reading stories to her, keeping her accompanied until she falls asleep, o
