Aurélie POV
Pack members had followed us into the courtyard, gathering in murmuring clusters. Their whispers drifted through the air astonishment, awe, disbelief. They spoke of my return from the dead, of blessings and fate, of the true Luna finally coming home.
Hope lit their faces.
I had the sickening sense that I was about to shatter it.
This was not the resurrection they dreamed of. I wasn’t back for them. I wasn’t here to reclaim anything I had lost.
I was here for my son.
And my son alone.
Damien POV
I had been awake late into the night after receiving word quietly, discreetly that the Darkvale pack had suffered an attack. I kept spies everywhere. The information reached me in the small hours of the morning, slipping through the cracks before anyone else could clamp down on i
