OVERWHEMING

She thought about the little boy she had saved the last time she was out. She hadn’t really processed all he had said as she had healed him, and had passed out almost immediately. She felt fit and ready enough to return to her investigations.

Not only did she need to distract herself from thinking about King, but the sooner she cracked the case, the sooner she could leave Moonwood behind. While she had spoken meanly to King, she had meant what she said about leaving the town behind.

She had grown tired of loving a town which had shown that it had no desire or interest in loving her back. She had picked up the fact that the people were saying she had made everything up, from the young wolf’s testimony.

Thinking about it filled her with bile and bitter anger. All she had done so far, she had done for them. She had left her safe haven and moved back to Moonwood, breaking her promise to herself. She had saved someone’s life. She had saved all their lives with her wards.

And yet, all she g