SERA

The old cottage sat at the eastern edge of the territory, half-hidden by overgrown hedgerows and the kind of neglect that happens when a place becomes too painful to maintain.

Elena had lived here before the marriage, before she'd moved into the pack house, before Kael and the bond and Cora and everything that came after. It was a small, stone-walled building with a slate roof and a green door that had been beautiful once and now hung crooked on rusted hinges. The windows were dark. The ...