79. Past

Theon.

“Have you seen Valencia?” I ask Haden who I’d found on my search, checking the machine guns on the castle walls, “I can’t find her anywhere.”

She disappeared after chatting in my office after the Council had called a meeting, and when I returned, she was nowhere to be seen inside the castle. At first, I was concerned, but then I remembered that Valencia knew this castle like the back of her hand, there’s no way she would get into any sort of trouble by getting lost.

Haden stills upon hearing that. Slowly he moves his incredulous gaze from the gun he’s checking at me.

“Valencia?” He asks, “Valencia Everheart? Galdine pack’s Valencia?”

I wince. “You hadn’t heard, have you?”

“Damn right, I hadn’t heard, what the hell is she doing here?” Crossing his arms, he demands. “Now of all times!”

“She came to visit after hearing about Ruelle’s death.”

Valencia Everheart was not someone I thought I would see ever again. One of the best sword-fighting wolves there was, who was the daughter of