BRIAR'S POV -- 'I cannot believe you.' Cora growls, shame filling me to the brim. 'I wasn't going to do anything,' I tell her, yet it feels like a lie. 'Liar,' She hisses, her anger beating against my mind like a wardrum. 'I'm not lying,' I retort with confidence I didn't feel. I feel...well, I feel utterly stupid. That's the only way to put it. I was utterly stupid for having one little doubt in myself, for wanting to just...let go of some things. A sour taste covers my tongue, my heart beating a little faster than normal. I shouldn't have wanted that in the first place, especially not from something who was behind the murders of my pack, my dad...and the Greenvale pack. The Greenvale pack. He was behind those murders. He killed so many, and there was no way for those children to esca

