Back Where 316
I never thought I’d be returning here so soon, but when the gates of the Ash Pack swung open for me, I couldn’t help but sigh, my shoulders sagging under the weight of it all.

Word of the war had shaken the very roots of the Shifter Empire, and the sights we’d witnessed had stolen our breath away.

We should’ve seen it coming from miles away, Zeph standing with Apex no matter what.

I’d noticed her wild, unshakable devotion to him since the first day she stepped into the Lycan Kingdom and he looked at her as though the rest of the world didn’t exist.

Now here I am, in the den of an angry wolf, Varyn Ashmere, come to demand back my foolish sister, who vanished after leaving a letter saying she’d relocated to the Ash Pack to meet her beloved Varyn.

I know better. The war strategist is toying with her head. He wants one thing, to make her life miserable, just as I made his, and from the looks of it, he’s succeeding.

My mother had been pale and trembling when she ordered me to bring Olivia home.