Chapter 5

Violet POV

That news should have made me glad. I was nursing a very recent heartache and just erased everything connecting me to the man I’d been dreaming of marrying.

But the way my mother said that line told me our pack’s situation was grave.

Dad immediately fussed over me. “Ignore your mother, you have come home after such a long time.”

He pulled me into a hug and said to mom. “She must be hungry, get her something to eat.”

Mom hurried inside the kitchen while servants brought my bags inside. I had mixed feelings about returning to the place I had grown up in.

I recalled how I had left happily from this home, telling my parents proudly that I was creating my own pack, my own little nest with Nate.

But I had burned eve