Chapter 46
Maddy had returned to the pack house the night before with her face pale and eyes swollen. Her lips were pressed, so tight it looked like they would c***k. She didn’t speak to anyone, not even the maids who greeted her, or the others who tried to ask what was wrong.
She only walked straight to her room with her hands still shaking and her shoulders slumped like someone carrying a weight she couldn’t drop. When she locked the door behind her, nobody heard a sound from her room, not even the sound of her crying, but she cried. She cried until the sun came up and her body ached from the sobs.
The next morning, she left her room. Quietly. She didn’t wear makeup, didn’t comb her hair. She wrapped a long robe around herself and stepped into the gardens like a ghost.
The wind was
