Chapter Nine
RONAN
Despite my initial reluctance to join my friends, we ended up staying out in the forest for most of the day.
It felt good to be back in shifter form, but not to be alone this time. To feel the wind through my fur, the dirt under my paws. After so long spent as an outcast—albeit self-imposed—having my packmates surrounding me again was nothing short of exhilarating. The joy of running with friends sang through my bone marrow, and when I put my head up and howled, snatches of their own song echoed back to me through the trees.
By the time I arrived back in town, I was spent. I shoved on the spare clothes we’d stashed in the gatehouse earlier, dressing in a daze. Noah nudged my shoulder as he wandered past.
He grabbed a bottle of water off the side of the gatehouse, ch
