“You haven’t bled in a while,” Rose pointed out when they reached the dark path leading to their secluded house. “Did the Luna Dowager give you a fix?”
“She had no choice. She badly wants an heir.”
“That woman is crazy.”
“Tell me something I don’t know,” Rune mumbled. “I don’t know how I lived with her.”
“You probably didn’t have a choice.”
“You know,” he turned very serious, “it never made sense to me that I had to put up with her no matter what she did. Each time a council member noticed that I was fed up with her antics, they’d advise me to endure. To remain filial.” He sighed loudly. “I should have cut ties with her instead of listening to them. If I had done that, we would not be struggling to leave the pack right now.”
Rose could not fully relate to him, but the pain in his vo
