Valtira.
A year had passed.
Yet sometimes it still felt as though everything had happened only yesterday.
The memories were still too sharp, too vivid, too alive inside my mind for time to have truly softened them.
Jesse still remained locked inside the cells beneath the castle. Zarek had not executed him, nor had he shown him mercy. Instead, he allowed him to live long enough to feel the full weight of the consequences of his actions.
Danika had been sent far away from the pack lands. Zarek had made that decision quietly, and though many had questioned it, I understood why he had done it. Her son had already lost enough in this mess, and Zarek could not bear the thought of the child growing up with neither parent beside him.
So he let her go.
Lyssandra… however…
Her name had slowl
