The healer's eyes widened, and he knelt beside me, once again meeting my gaze and shaking his head. “Don’t say that, Kiera. You can’t go back there. The only reason you are healed is because of your mate bond. If you go back, and they continue their treatment of you, eventually they are going to go too far.”
“I can stay out of their way,” I said, releasing his hand and pulling the blanket over my shoulder again. “I’ll figure it out. Or, I’ll find a way to a human city and live there. I will make it work for me. But, as much as I wanted this pack to be my family, as much as I was told it was, Brennan’s actions are making it clear it isn’t. He doesn’t want me there. He doesn’t want anything to do with me.”
Lorne shook his head. “Please, you can’t go. At least, not until we’re sure the wolf
