Chapter 177

Adelaide’s POV

My wolf let out a mournful howl in my mind, its low growl shaking the candlestick into a shower of sparks.

The image of Cedric nailed to the moon altar exploded in my mind.

I remembered how he used to grab my wrist as a child. ‘

The scenes shifted in my memory, and suddenly I saw Mallory holding his shattered skull.

My hardened nails dug fiercely into my palm.

My wolf eyes contracted into vertical slits in the darkness, and my moon goddess necklace suddenly grew

hot.

“Cedric is dead,” I growled, my voice laced with a wolf’s howl, my cedar pheromones tinged with the stench of blood.

Tommy’s wolf hair on his neck bristled under the aura.

The cruel images flashed through my mind, the pain making it hard to breathe.

I didn’t want to believe this false hope…

But I immediately had my horse brought out. The road to Redwood City was too rugged for a car. I had to ride.

I had to leave for Redwood City at once.

As I took the bundle from Beata, I could feel her ears trembling violently.

Her neck mark oozed faint comforting pheromones, but she shuddered uncontrollably.

the Frostfang Pack gripped their claws tightly around

faded, but the sulfur bite marks on the back of every corpse’s

counted the bodies back then, no one was missing, especially among

but a spark of hope

caressing the moon goddess necklace at my

that scene. Besides the skull, there was

had made those clothes for him when I returned to the Frostfang Pack, preparing new outfits

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nieces and nephews.

know it can’t be him. I wasn’t holding out hope. But… bring me Cedric’s favorite sling. The one I

Beata rushed off, tripped on the stone steps, but ignored the

myself, my voice trailing off

she brought me

“Cedric” engraved on it. As my fingertips touched the rough wooden handle, my wolf

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still bore bite marks from a pup, and each carved letter held cedar pheromones from

year.

long while, I looked up to

your knee…” I pressed on her bleeding

she insisted, shaking her head defiantly. Her temporary neck

Valentine, Ivy, and Jessica–their eyes

dared to hope

I left, Ivy called out,

a piece of apple pie in oil paper, and hurried over. “If that child is Cedric… well, have something

best baker, she always mixed herbs into her pies, claiming they

ears drooping, “Tell him the Frostfang Pack has plenty of candied

really was Cedric,

pie into my bundle and

I mounted, I looked back–everyone stood at the pack’s

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