Raelynn stumbled out of the packhouse, her body trembling as the weight of rejection settled deep into her bones. Each step away from the only home she had ever known felt heavier than the last, but she refused to stop. Her wolf, Becky, whimpered in the back of her mind, the pain of their mate’s rejection cutting through them both.
The air still crackled with the remnants of fire, the scent of scorched earth thick in my lungs. My pulse hammered, but my instincts screamed that this wasn’t over.
Lena wiped blood from her lip, her silver-lit eyes sharp as they met mine. “We need to move.”
I exhaled, forcing the fire inside me to settle. “They’ll come back.”
“Of course they will.” She scanned the trees, her body tense. “But now they know what you can do.”
And that meant they’d come prepar
