Artemisia It’s funny how my initial anxiety transforms into disappointment as we reach the first checkpoint mid-way where the pups can run around while the drivers get a little break after the long drive. The moment Fynn pulls his hand back to park and get out of the car, I feel like a piece of me has been taken away from me. It’s getting worse by the minute. ‘We have to finally drop the mutts to take on the offer of the Alpha,’ Cassy purrs carefully, and I guess she got the right moment as Drake doesn’t put her in her place as usual. Or maybe he has already begun to distance himself from me. I get out after him, and join Celeste and Astrid in serving the lunch packets as they are already swarming out to reach the playground in the picnic area. “Incredible that we are still

