Caleb had lost so much weight that his cheekbones pushed hard against his skin. His clothes hung in torn strips, and grime covered the Alpha I'd once planned to marry.
He crawled to the foot of the steps and stopped there. His knees scraped across the frozen stone.
"Elara." His voice rasped. "I found you. Goddess, I finally found you."
Kael stayed beside me. He made no move to speak for me or send Caleb away before I answered.
Caleb searched inside his coat with shaking hands. He brought out the Moonstone Crown, cracked, dull, and stripped of its light.
"I know everything now," he said. "Mia lied, and I believed her. I killed our son. I did it with my own hands."
He bent over the crown, fighting for breath.
The dead stones knocked together as his hands shook. That crown had once bee
