Chapter 10: Scent of a Traitor
Elara POV
The burning in my shoulder didn’t stop until Kael carried me all the way back into the main hall. Still, the quiet of the pack house was shattered before he could even set me down on a chair by the hearth, because the heavy front doors slammed open and Aria marched inside with a group of mud-splattered scouts behind her. She wasn't wearing her usual calm expression, her face was twisted into something sharp and dangerous, and she was clutching a tattered piece of white silk that I recognized instantly as a scrap from the hem of my ruined wedding dress.
"I found this snagged on a briar bush less than a mile from where we picked up that stray, Kael, and I spent the last three hours tracking the scent trail back to the Silvercrest border," Aria s
