Olivia POV
Elroy left with a thousand soldiers the next morning, half on horseback and half in their wolf forms. I supposed I should be curious about the battle strategy, but I wasn’t. I couldn’t bring myself to care.
A part of me knew I wasn’t defeated, that I would still fight for wolves’ rights and work to make Lunaris the city it should be.
But the rest of me was tired. I had pushed myself hard, and I needed to gather my strength for the next round. As my mother would say, “Always remember that rest is productive.”
So while I didn’t plan to spend the whole day in bed, I didn’t plan much of anything else. I had breakfast with tea in my room, asked Jordan to come visit another time, and told Iris I didn’t need anything from her.
I didn’t tell Elroy’s mother I never wanted anything f
