Chapter 51

WARD

I am surrounded by darkness. I try to look around but I cannot see anything. The last thing I remember is collapsing on the ground with Keena in my arms. She had passed out from the smoke and I was begging her to wake up. Then a blinding light encompassed me and I can only assume that it was the flames burning against my skin as I tried to protect Keena from the fire in the Crescent Moon pack house.

I must be dead. But if I am dead, why am I not standing in front of the Moon Goddess? Why am I not in the afterlife? This cannot be what death is like.

As I stand alone in the darkness I can hear the sound of muffled voices speaking loudly around me but I cannot make out what they are saying. I strain my ears to try and understand what is being said but it is of no use. Glancing around myself I try to see what direction the voices are coming from but it is impossibly dark and I cannot see. I call for my lycan to come forward to help me but he is nowhere to be found.

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