Chapter 43. Unworthy

“Carmen, I’m so sorry.” I can’t even begin to understand what she has been through, and to look at her, you would never know. The wall is up again and growing taller before my eyes. The fierce is on show again, and her only focus in all of this was her mother’s safety. The final blow was when the fates let her die. No wonder she thinks she’s cursed or somehow being punished by the higher powers.

“Yeah, well, you didn’t turn us away. At least her last hours were not around that toxic man and his minions. She got to experience the pack again, a safe place, and genuine love before she did what she did.”

“So, the rumors about how he is treating the people,” I interject, breathing heavily as all this swirls around my brain, and her hands clench and unclench as we get back up to speed in a new flow of faster traffic. I can feel her inner battle as her mind tells her that vulnerability is a weakness while her heart begs to grieve. Conflict thick around her.

“Juan likes to