ELARA POV:
The drive to Thornwood took two hours but felt like two minutes and two years all at once. Every mile closer made my chest tighter, my breathing shallower. I hadn't been back here since the night Kai rejected me. Since the night I'd run bleeding into the forest thinking I was going to die.
Now I was driving straight back into my nightmare, and I couldn't even explain to the twins why my hands were shaking on the steering wheel.
"Mommy, are you okay?" Luna's voice from the backseat was small and worried. "Your feelings are all jumbled. Like scared and angry and sad all mixed together."
"I'm fine, baby." Another lie. I was getting good at those. "Just thinking about grown-up stuff."
"Is it about Daddy's old pack?" Aiden asked. He was too perceptive, always had been. "Marcus s
