The sickened luna’s last chance

Ella

“At midnight, the esteemed Stormhollow Alpha manor went up in flames,” the newspaper article read. Detectives are still investigating the cause of the unexpected fire, but current evidence suggests that it was a freak accident caused by a faulty chimney flue. Thankfully there were no casualties, although nothing remains of the house itself.”

My breakfast sat in a heap in front of me, tea having spilled across the tray and soaking the bread when

the cup

had slipped from my fingers. Broken shards of porcelain littered the table, but I hardly noticed.

My childhood home had been destroyed.

Along with everything inside of it.

Likely along with the trunk of my mother’s possessions in the basement.

Everything I had of her was probably gone, burned up in a “freak” overnight fire that completely

demolished the entire place I had once called home.

My hands shook as I read the article over and over again, as if rereading the words countless times might change them. But what was done was done. All of those memories, everything that I once held dear… Was now simply ash in the wind.

small fell out of the newspaper. I didn’t notice it at first, too focused on the words blurring before me on the page,

familiar script.

you want to get out, put a candle in

Dear, sweet Lilith–she was disobeying Alexander’s orders against communicating with me. She must have seen the article and sent the newspaper, along with her note, to

and I was pretty sure he wasn’t even home, which meant that it could be hours before the guard outside my

to see my childhood home. Even if only for a few minutes, to see if

was a soft knock on my door and the sound of the key turning in the

out of the room and locking the door behind us as if I were still inside.

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time to slip out.”

through the servants‘

the back

wolf form, we hurriedly loped through the forest–taking a car was too risky.

Stormhollow on foot, but

I knew we were

upon the destruction that was once my family’s home, the