Chapter Twenty Nine

The ride to my father's kingdom was a long one. I spent most of the time looking out of the window and trying to get the sight of so much blood, destruction and death out of my mind. It was hard not to close my eyes and see those girls lying there. I didn't want to admit it, but the situation had me a bit shaken up. Zayden sat in the back seat, continuously fussing over Winter. It's not that I could blame him. There wasn't that much of an age difference between me and my brother. Zayden was actually only a couple of months older than me. Shifters had short pregnancies, but I had heard that Lycan births came by even more quickly. He found his mate at sixteen and married her barely a year and a half later. I loved Winter, but I often worried for Zayden's state of mind, going from being a kid, to being a mate, to being a husband. It had to be a lot.

Behind us, there was a row of several cars. They were all headed in the same direction, to the Kingdom of the Southern territory. It took a