Chapter 306

• It had been one month since Riley was taken from them.
• On that bleak dawn, the pack had gathered in silence as her body was wheeled into the shadowed forest, toward the Moonlit Pyre. Carmen remembered the way Lucien had fought, how his growls had shaken the earth, how even Duke and Caelum Knox had struggled to hold him back. But tradition was stronger than even an Alpha’s grief. By law, by blood, by vow to the Moon, the dead belonged to Her.
• And so, with their hearts breaking, they had let Riley go.