Chapter 37

• Aysel’s POV
• That night, Yuna Ward found me crying behind the garden wall. She knelt beside me, her scent heavy with something sweet and strange. “If your parents find the pup,” she whispered, “they’ll kill it. You must hide him. Take him to the glade. I’ll help you.”
• I believed her. I searched the forest for hours, following his scent until the sun bled out. I never found him—only a patch of red-stained earth where his trail ended.