Chapter 72

“She had run away. Or was taken, I don’t remember. There was a horrible rumor she had become a rogue but I didn’t believe it. No kid that small deflects on its own. She loved us. She loved me. Even as a kid, her love was palpable. Then one day, she told me her father had hurt someone. Another wolf, by mistake. And he was going to stay away for quite some time. The Alpha had ordered so. We were playing near the ice caves for a long time that day. We didn’t want to come home.” She took a pause, to disinfect the old festering wound. They had played until the nightfall, until Silas himself had come looking for them.

Now, years later, lot of things didn’t add up. There were holes the size of trapdoors. It was too late to stop her version of truth from coming out.

“I know you told me she is missing. Missing still. But I know she is dead. Nobody, no wolf is gone that long for sixteen years. My brain gets foggy if I try to remember how it all went down. You have told me she was trapped under