Chapter 58: The Heat

Kaden’s POV

I have never felt such anguish in my life, not even I lost my mother to the creature she has become. I look at Liliana who sits before me, perched against the tree with her head down and my heart breaks.

The loss of her wolf is more than a physical absence; it's a spiritual amputation, leaving her incomplete in a way that goes beyond the physical realm.

How much pain did she bear and how is it that she has shielded all this from me? From all of us? How is it that she has been able to keep this agonizing secret of her and bear the pain alone?

Liliana is strong, fiercely so, but even the strongest can be brought low by the trials they face.

The weight of her suffering and the toll it has taken on her becomes painfully clear to me.

I reach out, my hand closing around her arms with more force than I intended, my emotions set loose. "Why didn'