The healer slowly clenched her hands into fists.
As both a woman and someone who had witnessed the entire tragedy from beginning to end, she couldn’t silence the feeling growing inside her. Raquel’s concern hadn’t sounded real. Every sentence she spoke felt carefully prepared, as though she had rehearsed it long before this night. The more the healer thought about it, the more her heart ached for the little pup who had never been given the chance to take its first breath.
She wanted answers.
She wanted to ask Raquel why she had done it.
More than anything, she wanted to speak for the child who no longer could. She wanted Raquel to look at what had happened and acknowledge that an innocent life had been lost because of her choices.
Just as she was about to speak, the old pack doctor re
