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 .

young back

a little girl just like you … A daughter ! I

has a daughter

dont

about her

Dane nodded .

get my people on it

is still on Remingtons trail , but I have others

Trajan

You need rest , Dane and

at each

at him , and he gave me half a smile

can help them once youve slept at least six hours , I told

guilt still threatened to crush me

was all so much

wished the earth would open up and swallow me , because I

of me knew that even if it did , I would wear my fingers to the bone to dig myself out , because no part of me could rest until I saved my children

, or Dane , or Trajan , I would lose the most

I said , new fear taking hold in me , Wheres Evander ? Chapter

the edge of Broken Forest land that night

the coldest part of the dark, just before the

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

Close .

I was cold , isolated

country with wilderness wilder than anything I had experienced

Aurora said , this

my charges

Id failed them .

with himself when he failed to protect two children

too far away from home to hear the back and forth chatter of the High Alpine pack in my mind , and it

the heart of the

a charming screw up , I thought I had a

could never show my face to them again any of them , including Aurora if I

4/5 I trotted through the forest in my

wast good for battle , but the wolf was best for living outside , covering

land was

of it

sudden cliffs , steep slopes , and hidden

was late summer , so the streams and rivers I crossed were

everything when I lifted my nose and scented other wolves

on the back of my neck stood on end , and my

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

by

Like Waylon Reed .

picked my way through the underbrush ,

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