Chapter 150

Three more days later, they were ready to go back to Naturiah. Wolfaraine made it clear that they cannot stay any longer in the human world. Wolfhunters have attacked twice, he'd confessed, but he and Alphose had managed to take of them in secret to avoid scaring her mother and sister.

"Please, come with us, mother." Ismena pleaded again for the umpteenth time. Wolfaraine had agreed already for her to bring her family to Naturiah if her mother was in agreement. But she wasn't.

Again, Amelia shook her head, pasting a smile on her face. She seemed to have aged more in the past few days, and the changes tugged on Ismena's chest so much. Her father's death hit her mother harder than she's letting on.

"I can't, Ena. I want to stay here," she gestured to their home, "Here... Your father's memories are right here.When I move around the house and I can still feel him."

Ismena swallowed tightly, glancing behind her at Wolfaraine's inscrutable face before staring back at her mother. "Mother, d