As Rain and the other guards walked Issa through the paths of the mountains down to the pack house,

Issa's mind whirled. She remembered Rain's gaze at Aries. The look of shock in his eyes. The way in which he had seemed to hesitate, for a brief moment, on the child's face.

The urge to lie about them raged inside her, burning in her throat. She wanted to scream that they weren't hers. That she was only looking after them. That they were only… human. But the words withered before they could ...