CHAPTER 23
AURORA“I’m sorry about the deaths,” Elijah said, looking over Ares’s desk at me.
After Ares had fallen asleep, I’d hopped out of bed to work. Now that Fenris had attacked our pack and killed three members, we had so much more to do in such a little time. Who knew when the next attack would be? Who knew what they’d try to take? Charolette perhaps.
Sitting beside Elijah, Adrian rested his hand on Elijah’s knee. “Ares is taking it bad, isn’t he?”
Tears welled up in my eyes, but I held myself together. I needed to be strong for Ares because he had always been my rock; he’d always been as strong as a damn god. Yet nobody could just erase the sight of headless bodies, hanging and swaying in the fall breeze, from their minds.
Memories of the day I’d almost died in the hands of the
