Thirty-three.The age he’d died before.But now, he’d made it.I smiled faintly. “Of course. I’ll be there.”That evening, the packhouse smelled like roasted herbs and sweet onion bread.Home.Killian’s mother hugged me tightly, apron still on.“Clara, welcome home.”I nearly cried.In this life, no one blamed me.No one screamed at me.No funeral.Just laughter.“You’ve gone soft,” Killian’s mother teased as she wiped my tears. “It’s just dinner!”Over soup and small talk, I learned what really happened to Selena.“Her attack wasn’t random,” Killian’s father said.“She’d been seeing a rogue-born wolf—someone cast out by his pack for blood crimes.When she threatened to expose him to the Council, he lured her near the boundary woods, where rogue packs hunt.That’s where they found her—thrown into a silver-laced road, her aura nearly extinguished.”Killian’s mother scoffed.“She survived, but the Council marked her as unbonded and dishonored.No pack would take her.
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