The morning after I returned to the pack house — after following Vane into the forest and then turning back, after standing in the rain at the edge of the clearing and making the choice that felt like the only possible one — I woke to the smell of coffee. Not the smell of coffee the way I had come to know it in the weeks since the accident: the bitter, roasted ghost of something I couldn't drink, drifting up from the kitchen below, carrying with it the warmth of the house and the layered wolf-s...
A glimpse of what's next
Next in Chapter 12: Sebastian Vane rides into Keswick to collect what he says is his — and Rafael has three days to decide how far the pack is willing to go.
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