Madeline POV
Arius and I had spent the last few hours of the day cuddling, kissing and mostly talking. He had filled me in on everything that he knew about what Ruby had been through, how everyone in the pack was doing, and the threat of the hybrids. I knew he was holding back though. Every time I asked about how he has been or spent the last eleven years, he was vague or made jokes instead of reliving the pain I knew he had been through. The fact he hadn’t bothered to get his hair cut in over eleven years spoke volumes. I knew he was just trying to shield me from the anguish it would cause me to know how he had suffered and, in a way, I was grateful.
Slowly, as the day had progressed, I was starting to feel a bit stronger. My muscles no longer ached and not every movement caused me a h
