“Are you ready to go home?” Alec asks softly, his voice breaking through the calm of the cabin’s warm interior.
I look around once, then down at my hands. This small cabin has been my sanctuary for the past three days. In it, with Alec by my side, I’ve felt safe. I was in pain, yes, but I felt at peace in a twisted kind of way.
Now we are going back to the pack and I feel a heavy weight on my chest. I know it was just an illusion of peace, but it was something. For the past three days I haven’t thought about the curse, Xena, Kaden or the premonition of my death. I haven’t thought about the war that is to come or everything that could go wrong. Now, though, we are going back to all that chaos and I don’t know what to do.
“Not really,” I admit truthfully. “But I miss Aspen… so much.”
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