(Raiden’s POV)
The news hits me harder than I expect.
Eighteen months. It’s been eighteen months since Siena walked out of my life, her head held high, her voice steady despite the tears in her eyes.
Eighteen months since she severed the bond between us with those ancient words, leaving me to drown in the wreckage of my own mistakes.
And now, she’s coming back.
Not for me, of course. She made that clear in her brief, carefully worded messages delivered through Rairity. Siena’s return isn’t about reconciliation or revisiting the past.
She’s returning to Windhowl to visit friends, to check on the pack’s progress, to see for herself how things have fared in her absence.
Still, the news sends Horace into a frenzy. He paces restlessly in my mind, his excite
