CHAPTER 22
AURORAAfter Ares disappeared with the boy’s body, I ached to chase after him to ensure that he wouldn’t do anything stupid. The god of war was a reckless mess, driven by his rage for war and his sorrow for his people. And I had never seen him so sullen.
“This is all my fault,” Charolette sobbed before I could go after him. She shook uncontrollably with fat tears streaming down her cheeks and rolling down her neck. “My fault.”
The warriors around us stared at me and waited for my orders, but I didn’t know what to do. Mom had never once given me this much responsibility, nothing even close to this. While I was an alpha, I never had the blood of my pack members on my hands like this. Maybe during the second hound attack on my old pack, but I had desperately tried to warn everyon
