Chapter 18

 

18 The Library Incident 1

Mara

We finally went hunting.

The moment I shifted into my grey wolf form and sprinted into the woods of Riverfall, something inside me loosened. The

wind slicing through my fur, the scent of wet earth, pine, and the quiet hush of running water-it was everything I needed.

I wasn’t out here to hunt. I was here to breathe. To remember who I was outside of obligation and arranged marriages.