THE LUNA THEY NEVER WANTED
“Even after I called you a stranger.”
“I’ll always come back,” Talia said, tears streaming freely now. “Every single time, whether you remember me or not.”
Rowan took one slow step forward, then another, and finally closed the distance between them, falling into her mother’s arms after eleven years of silence finally broken.
I looked at Elena, at Wren, at the valley slowly settling around us as packs began the long process of processing everything they’d just witnessed, and felt, for the first time in longer than I could remember, something that might actually have been peace.