Chapter 170

Viona's POV

The roar of the plane's engines vibrated through my bones, but it wasn't the sound that unsettled me. It was the silence inside my chest-the strange, aching stillness of leaving everything behind.

From the tiny oval window, the land I had fought for, bled for, and once loved with my whole soul shrank into nothing but a patchwork of clouds and darkness. I pressed a hand gently against my unnoticeable bulging abdomen, my lips tightening as my wolf stirred faintly inside ...