Chapter 175

[WARNING: This chapter contains details of gore and death. Proceed with caution.]

Zoe's POVThat night, I slept in my old bed. Apparently, no one had known about our departure from Golden Eclipse or our arrival at Silver Moon. Xavier chose to stay, and Aunt Julie offered him my father’s room, but he refused. He knew I’d be furious if he stayed there. I blamed him for my father’s death, and honestly, so did he.

Aunt Julie wanted to ask Xavier about his pack, but he’d been so quiet that she decided against it.

I sat on my bed, staring at the contents of the wooden box. I looked at the pictures again, this time paying more attention to the details. I read the notes on the back of each one. Some were simple comments about the photo, while others were written in the same unfamiliar language as the bundle of papers and needed to be deciphered.

It was all too much to process at once. The only good thing about opening the box so far was that it had distracted me from my grief, even if just for