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Chapter 40

Author: L.M.Daveth
last update publish date: 2026-04-27 01:00:18

Cassandra's POV

It started the way bad things usually do. Quietly.

I had gone to the garden to think. That was all. The pack grounds had pockets of stillness if you knew where to find them and the garden on the south side was one of those, shielded from the main training areas and most of the daily pack movement. I had taken to going there in the afternoons when the walls of the house felt too close.

Claire was already there.

She was sitting on one of the stone benches near the rosebushes, whic
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