-Jake’s P.O.V.-
“I thought you’d be halfway through the country by now,” I muse, taking in my surroundings with interest. It’s been a while since I’ve gone beyond pack borders. The atmosphere is different somehow. I don’t feel the pressure of the pack I am bound to here. It’s almost freeing.
“Couldn’t leave,” Athena says, her gaze on a raised piece of earth, “I had to bury her.”
I don’t have to ask who the ‘her’ is. Athena’s purpose had been to save her cousin, but circumstances had prevented it. She was too dangerous, and we couldn’t risk it.“I am sorry about your cousin,” I offer, though I can’t imagine any other outcome for her. Maybe that’s something else to be sorry about.
“I am too.” She mutters something under her breath, and flowers emerge over the patch of earth. Purp
