The Broken Alpha
Rose gestured for Lily to follow her inside, and then busied herself by the stove, filling a small kettle with water and balancing it carefully on the hob.
Lily sat at the kitchen table, resting her head in her cupped hands. “I can hardly say it,” she whispered, eyes fixed on the single white rose kept in a thin, ornate vase in the very centre of the table. It had been given as a gift to Rose’s mother after her birth by an old pack witch, one who Lily had never known. She had offered her the flower as a blessing, along with the promise that it would never wilt. Nobody had believed her to begin with, Rose had told Lily many times, but the flower still bloomed today as it had almost eighteen y