Chapter 203

Damon

The earth was still soft where we’d buried him.

I was still in deep pain for the last that we had of him, for the fact that we could not save his life or understand what had happened to him in the first place.

I didn’t wait for rest. I couldn’t.

Not when everything that we depended on, not when everything that we loved was on the line. The family, our pack, our home, everything felt different. The air around us felt different.

And I knew after that mist had formed around us within the pack that we were going to need to stand stronger, otherwise whoever was watching us was going to grow stronger by the day.

Hours after Caleb’s funeral, I was back in the woods, walking the same cursed path where his lifeless body had been found. Walking through what we believed could be a path that led to who brought him here. Carter and Ethan followed in silence, their faces grim. None of us spoke about the weight pressing on our chests. Neither one of