Elelira POV “Lira?” Lachlan entered our room. He knocked first, but I couldn’t bring myself to move or say anything. After waking up back at the packhouse in our bed, I didn’t move at all. I just stared vacantly at the wall before me, only blinking and breathing. I felt the bed shift beside me, Lachlan sitting next to me and gently placing his hand on my back. “Are you alright?” he asked softly. Am I alright? No, I’m not. Not at all. Not only are those men here, many of whom were involved with…with the events before my death, but that man, Isaac, the way he stared at me…. It makes me sick to even think about it now. Even before, when he came to this pack in my first life to examine me, he would visit my mother often. I was always hidden or sent away, but I remember my mother’s look of

