17. ELINOR

CHAPTER 17- Elinor

Kendra knew now what true loneliness was.

She thought she did before, but she had never realised that there was loneliness, and then there was loneliness.

She now understood the word in its true, raw form.

Artemis had gone back to her hometown for a little while Rhea, her nanny had also gone to Kreiway to see her bouncy baby grandson.

As for Maymunah, the she-wolf told herself that she’d rather hang at the gallows than go seeking the old hag’s company.

She was still angry with the Oracle… because it wasn’t as though she could exactly go and pour her frustrations out on Selene, the goddess of the moon— so Maymunah was a close enough second.

And Killian, the one who usually made things a bit more bearable did not want to see her.

Or at least that was what the female Beta thought.

You see, guilt was eating her alive.

More so than usual, in fact.

And so she was back to her old ways of avoiding him… wanting to save them both the trouble and spare them another a