Chapter 101 AURORA Nausea took me over as I looked at Dane and Trajan .

I didnt even think about it .

I knew she was employed by the Reeds .

I should have wondered where she came from .

I should have wondered why and how she showed up now , at such a convenient time .

But I met her away from everyone else , when I was down in Atlanta , and it felt like I ran into her on accident … My knees went weak .

Dane grabbed me and led me to a chair as horror overwhelmed me .

Goddess .

Tristan and Seraphina .

Its my fault .

Its all my fault ! Dane knelt in front of me .

We dont know for sure it was her .

She could have been a victim of the Reeds just as casily as you .

They could have found a way to threaten her .

Maybe blackmail her .

Does she have any family of her own ? Maybe the Reeds .

dont have the children .

Maybe she took them to her family and is hiding with them .

Try to remember .

I took a shuddering breath and flicked through my fragmented memories .

It was hard , because even though they were becoming more solid all the time , they were all so terrible I didnt want to look at them and see .

I didnt want to remember .

I thought back to my earliest days , when the Reeds would spend the day training or purifying me , and then Mrs.

Jamison would come to me .

She would bring me food , bathe me , tell me Chapter 101 stories .

was so young back

little girl just

a daughter

I dont know

else about

Dane nodded .

people on it

still on Remingtons trail , but

can- Trajan

Dane and I

glanced at each

brow at him , and he

youve slept at

guilt still threatened to

all so

the earth would open up and swallow me , because I couldnt bear

knew that even if it did , I would wear my fingers to the bone to dig myself out , because no part

, or Trajan , I would lose the most

fear taking hold in me , Wheres

in the woods on the edge of

restless hours , grabbed in the coldest part of the dark, just before the sun rose

until I found the twins , and my gut told me they

Close .

was cold , isolated

was in a strange country with wilderness

no matter what Dane and Aurora said , this was my fault

my charges

Id failed them .

when he failed to protect two children

forth chatter of the High Alpine pack in my mind ,

right in the heart

had a special place

any of them , including

the

covering distance , for hunting and tracking

land was rough

it was

, steep slopes , and hidden ravines

late summer , so the streams and rivers I crossed were

was far from the Reed pack house far from everything when I lifted my nose and scented other wolves

neck stood on end , and

the dark , but there was a path through the trees that smelled like it

it was used by important pack

Like Waylon Reed .

picked my way through the underbrush ,

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