Eve’s POV

The child arrived just in the afternoon, wrapped in too many layers for a day that wasn’t even cold enough to justify them.

He had been brought in under the guise of taking him for special treatments, I paused mid-step near the healer’s quarters, fingers curling as a strange sensation bloomed outward

“Eve?”

Malik called out to me. I inhaled slowly and nodded, forcing my shoulders to loosen.

“I’m fine,” I lied

The wolves that escorted the humans looked tense in the ...