Kaida's POV I hadn’t even noticed my injured leg was leaving a trail of blood behind me. The pain was excruciating, and the bleeding was bad. They wouldn’t need to search for me; they could just follow the blood. "No, no, no, no," I cried as I walked, trying to move as fast as I could to reach the river. I was closer now than ever. "Alpha Kael would pay anything to have you killed tonight!" one of them shouted from afar. “f**k Alpha Kael! f**k him! f**k him! f**k him!” I cursed under my breath, biting my tongue. “f**k him and his betrothed! I’d make sure he never found out about his child. That was, if I made it out alive.” My chances of survival felt like a thin thread. I kept walking fast, even though I knew I needed a miracle to escape Frostmoon. But I never stopped; I just kept

