There are truths we wanted to tell you ourselves. Truths about our family, our pack, and the wolf who chose you. If we failed to return to you, I need you to understand one thing before anything else.
My heartbeat quickened.
You were never loved because of what you might become.
A tear slipped down my cheek.
You were loved because you were ours.
I covered my mouth.
Clarissa pressed close.
I kept reading.
Do not let grief define the woman you become.
Kindness is not weakness.
Mercy is not surrender.
And love will always require courage.
The words blurred.
"I can't..."
My voice broke.
Kael took one instinctive step towards me.
Then stopped.
He let me choose.
Richard quietly turned towards the window.
Privacy.
I wiped my eyes.
There was more.
There may come a day when ot
