Damien’s POV
Talking to Claire was one of my least favorite things to do in the entire world. This woman had been directly responsible for so much of my heartache, in plotting to take Amelia away from me.
Years ago, her parents had talked me down from having her executed. She was to be exiled instead. After her traumatic childbirth, the exile was pushed back until she was feeling healthier and had a chance of surviving as a rogue werewolf.
That day still hadn’t arrived. Instead, she was stricken with many medical ailments, seemingly more all the time.
When her parents passed, perhaps that should have been my chance to cast her out once and for all. But by then, the girls were old enough to know her, but not old enough to understand why I would send a handicapped woman into the wilds to
