Luke POV
I’d managed to fully integrate Thorne’s former pack with Elias’s, and they were finally pulling their weight at the castle.
Those still fiercely loyal to Thorne were either dead or locked away in the castle’s dungeon—and that dungeon was no joke. It was the largest, most secure prison I had ever seen, built in such a way that escape was utterly impossible. But even so, we had guards stationed at every entrance and corridor, just in case.
Once I’d seen to every piece of pack business that needed handling, I decided it was time to head back to North Carolina. My destination was that same cursed field—the one where Lyra had vanished.
When I arrived, the place was eerily quiet. A solitary tent was pitched near the center of the field, but there was no sign of life around it.
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