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Chapter Twenty Four - What the water knows

Autor: Souldraft
last update Data de publicação: 2026-03-17 00:26:28

Ava's POV

The boy's name was Remy.

His grandmother's name was Odette Thibodaux and she was eighty one years old and she had been the last Elder of the Ashmoon Clan before the fire.

Not a wolf herself. Something older than wolf, a human woman born into a family that had served the Ashmoon Clan for four generations as keepers, historians, the people who held the knowledge when the wolves could not safely hold it themselves. When the fire came Odette had not been at the property. She had been in t
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