As soon as Marisol’s voice resonated through the battlefield, earning all their attention, Nicole released the wolf she’d been tormenting, its body dropping onto the floor with a loud thud as she leaped towards her daughter and immediately pulled her into an embrace.

Marisol’s eyes immediately welled up with tears at the warmth of her familiar embrace, overwhelmed with emotion and her chest tightening with the force of it. She couldn’t imagine just how much she’d missed this. Just the ...