Chapter 94

• “She betrayed him by sacrificing her own life to protect a child who can regain the balance of things. Sierra is a seer and a witch. Yes, she has powers unlike any wolf, but they are not strong like a warrior. They are useful for protection on a small scale, and she has abilities to control certain aspects of others. She’s a healer, not a fighter, and she did what she thought could make a difference.”
• “Meaning?” I turn to him fully and lock onto him, seeing him swallow hard. His mistrust of my current behavior is written all over him. At this moment, he’s afraid of me, and he’s nervously spewing words to try to diffuse it or to keep me focused on anything other than turning on him. Even without my wolf sense, I can smell the terror coming in waves from him. It’s not intentional, but these feelings are bigger than me, and I have no will to reel them in right now. It is fractured and seeping, and I don’t know how to stop it from pouring out and pooling around me like a dense smog.
• “She got to you before Juan did. Ran and left the pack on their return to your lands. She bound her blood to you, so you became linked to her and completely protected from being slain, too, thus meaning he could never kill you. And if he tried to isolate and imprison you, his pack would have asked why. What did a child do? All these years, this story haunted me as nothing more than the imagining of a fractured mind, torn by the horror and atrocities she witnessed, and yet here you stand—the child of Marina. Just like she said you would. Alora, I am so sorry. Please, you must understand that had I known there was any truth in it, I would never … ” His absolute honest despair comes through in torn rawness, but it’s not my concern right now. I can’t feel anything for his sorrow or his heartache, while there’s only chaos and a need to avenge them all.