Chapter 54

Briar’s POV

"A ritual," I repeated slowly. "Should I be worried?"

"No," Kieran answered, coming up beside us. "It’s something we do after a run. Our mother used to do it. She’d look at the reflection of the moon in the water. Said it kept us from forgetting where we came from."

I frowned softly. I had never seen it that way "That’s… kind of beautiful. Your mother seems like a beautiful soul."

Kylan grinned. "She was. Calm. Collected and the only one who was able to handle us with all our disastrous character. L"

We all chuckled at that.

Kai glanced at his brothers, then back at me. "It was her quiet way of saying goodbye to the beasts inside us. That even after all the blood, there’s still peace."

I nodded. I wonder what’s their story, the story of their beast. Maybe that would be a question for another time, we kept on walking with each other side by side.