Alex POV
It had been three weeks since our little Ember had disappeared and we had heard nothing of her whereabouts.
I was happy for Lycus, his happiness at finding Calli and Gray had given the castle something to be hopeful for. It was a certain thing that there would be another arrival of pups in a few months, the fact that the royals would always reproduce during their marking ritual assured that. Neither I or Nia could hide the agony we felt for their news.
We had created our family during our ritual, found out and readied ourselves to be the parents to five pups and within weeks of their birth, our five had been cruelly decreased to four.
I tried to concentrate on the remaining four, I had named them by myself, Nia had become detached from them, fearing that if she grew too attach
