CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT: A SAD TALE

Seeing her lie in his cabin that dark evening as the sun set made him want to ask so many questions. A thousand of them, if he could number them accurately.

‘Aren’t you supposed to be dead?’

‘Where is our child?’

‘If you are alive, why did you not come back to me?’

“Prepare yourself for anything.” Melissa had cautioned him. “Some things are better not known, and best remain in the graves where they have been hidden and buried, but when you know them, you must face them.”

That was the problem. Jayden was afraid to know. He wasn’t so sure if he wanted to know about it anymore. He was beginning to regret finding her and enlisting the wolves to help him bring her. He was starting to wonder why he did not let her die in the cold snow.

“She will come around soon, and before then, you must decide. If you will run away from the truth or face it head-on, and deal with the consequences later. And like I have told you before, you must be careful of what you do when you see her.” Melissa wa