The members of Moonflower Pack gathered around the brother of their Alpha, who still had a knife lodged inside his chest and his eyes closed in death.
“I’m sorry,” Estrella said to me, closing her eyes and looking away.
Just then, a loud and piercing scream had our heads turning towards the tree where I had abandoned Max’s body to find Melia holding him in her arms in agony.
“Why did you take him away from me?!” She screamed, staring directly at me. “What did he do to you that was so bad?! He gave you a place to stay, food to eat, and he honed your powers!”
“Did you not hear me mention everything that he did to me just now?!” I yelled back as we were picking out the good and the bad things that we both thought Max had done before his death.
“He killed my parents, Melia! He manipulated
