When we finally got back to pack territory again it was like I could breathe. I no longer felt cold and empty but full of love and light. The girls we had rescued were cleaned up and healed as was I. We walked into the center of the gated region and people ran from their houses and hugged there loved ones. Some broke down at the loss and the knowledge that they would never see their loved ones again. And some of the unmated males puffed up their chests and flirted with the young women we saved.
It was all very tame and innocent compared to what they were used to, but they seemed to lap it up, flirting back. I felt a swell of emotion, everything that had happened. The loss of so many of our pack, our family for me. I could not help but feel responsible. I hung at the back staying to the s
