Chapter 31 Hydrophobic

• ***FIVE YEARS AGO***
• 13-year-old Ava’s had just returned from the healers’ quarters, she was back from changing the bandages that were tied on her injured leg. She’d sprained her ankle and sustained a knee injury during horseback riding yesterday, and now even though she still felt pain, the pain wasn’t as severe as the one of yesterday. She was looking for her betrothed, Ray, so he could continue to tell her soothing stories that would comfort her and make her forget the pain, at least for a little while. She searched around the moonlight packhouse for a while until one of the groomers told her he was at the pool.
• Ray at the pool? Since when? Ray had a phobia for water, she’d always known this because she was so close to him. Apart from his relatives, only she and Ethan knew in the whole packhouse, they’d discovered this during their young wolf training sessions and decided to keep it a secret between the trio; it probably would not be best to let anyone else in the packhouse know that their future alpha feared something so much simple as water.