~The Broken Thread~

ELRICH

Kian’s words kept looping through my head. Calista may be alive, and every time I blinked, I could still see the look in his eyes when he said it. And that certainty gnawed at me more than the words themselves.

By the time I reached the council hall, the elders looked up when I entered.

"Alpha," Elder Mireen said with a nod. "You seem… troubled."

"Troubled," I repeated. "That’s one way to describe finding out that the woman who tried to tear this pack apart ...