Ethan's POVI hear she's back before I see her.
The whole pack's talking about it by midday. The dead Luna, not dead. Walked into the archive this morning like she owned it, and old Osric nearly fell over himself bowing.
I sit in my study and I turn it over, and here's where my head goes first, God help me.
She came back.
She got her freedom. She could've gone anywhere. Human cities, the coast, the other side of the world. And she came back here. To Blackwood. To the place I'm standing in.
Some part of me lights up like a fool.
Maybe she didn't get as far from me as she wanted to. Maybe there's a thread still. Maybe—
Then I notice what my wolf is doing.
Nothing.
That's the part I can't get past. She's back, she's a few miles away, close enough that the bond should be humming like a
