We stayed at the safe house for three more days while I got better and each day I felt stronger and the Shard stayed with me the whole time and I could feel it fixing what the ritual had broken inside me.

On the fourth day Jax said "We need to go back to the pack house and people want to see you and they want to know you're okay" and I said "I'm ready."

The pack house looked bad when we got there and half of it was burned from the explosives and there were black marks on the ground where the ...