Revenge

After Leah's death, Ashlyn became much more solemn and colder. She invested all her time in investigation and training, barely leaving any second for eating or resting. Samuel started to show more involvement.

Both of them had the common goal of revenge.

After this incident, she bore suspicion towards all the pack members and had all them checked up. Not only that, she monitored the actions of everyone, and no one was allowed to do anything out of orders.

Although Elijah supported her as much as he could, he saw that Ashlyn would easily collapse if this went on. No matter how strong she was, there was only a certain amount of stress that her body would be able to handle.

He could see that Ashlyn blamed herself greatly, and this was one of the ways she punished herself. Also, letting herself be occupied with work prevented her mind from being consumed with thoughts.

He tried to console her, but Elijah could clearly feel the invisible wall she placed between both of them. She distanced