Valtira.
I wasn’t sure how much longer I could endure this.
I wasn’t certain how far the magnitude of my anger could stretch before it snapped and consumed everything in its wake.
Seeing her here — standing before me as though summoned from the grave of a life I had long buried — was something I had never once imagined would happen.
Not in this pack.
Not in this lifetime.
I had not allowed my thoughts to wander toward my family in what felt like ages. In truth, I had trained my heart to forget they ever existed. Whether they still drew breath beneath the same sky mattered little to me.
Even now, after hearing they had been attacked by rogues, I found no grief stirring within my chest.
Perhaps none of them should have survived it.
The thought came coldly, without remorse, and I
