GABRIEL
The weight of guilt was crushing me. Every time I thought about going to the Red Moon Pack to see Catriona, something held me back. Shame. Fear. A storm of emotions I couldn’t silence. I owed her the truth—that I had been there before, that I knew what it felt like to be abandoned by family, that I understood the pain she must have gone through. But would she even listen to me? Would she ever forgive me?
It's been eight nights.
Eight damn nights, and she still hadn’t come to see her brother.
I stood on my bedroom balcony, watching. Below, her brother played with the pack's children, laughter bubbling out of him like he hadn’t just been through hell. He moved carefully, still recovering, and their grandmother watched him with hawk-like attention. Her family had blended in so ea
