Chapter 304. Why Was He Still Denying It?

Aerys’s POV

We were just about to step out again, the tension in the house still thick enough to taste, when the front door suddenly swung open.

For a split second, my heart lurched into my throat. Instinctively, I braced myself for bad news—another report, another body, another failure on my part as an Alpha. But then I saw her.

Iris.

My baby sister stood there in the doorway, her small fingers wrapped tightly around Harry’s larger hand. Her curls were a little tangled, her cheeks smudged with dirt, but she was alive. Safe. Breathing.

Relief hit me so hard it almost knocked the air from my lungs.

I took an involuntary step back as my knees threatened to buckle, then a bright, almost disbelieving smile split my face. Before I could say a word, I