Chapter 25

Neither of them mentioned the incident in the garden afterward, but not for lack of Daniel trying. He had tried on three separate occasions over the next two days to bring it up - just to make sure Beth was all right - but she had steered clear of it and held her head high, putting herself to work so industriously that he felt guilty interrupting her. How did she do that? The final attempt, he ended up slinking back into the study where his father had left him messages from the other packs to look over, but he abandoned the pile shortly afterward to look out the window.

Beth. She was working so hard but he was slacking. He should be ashamed of himself. And yet he couldn't stop staring out at the grounds, imagining older days when things hadn't been so difficult...so complicated.

He clenched his fists. Every time he thought of his brothers, all he could think about was how to punish the rogues that had ambushed them all, but the Heether pack had to rebuild its strength first. That and