Chapter 29

Mia

We had all our camping gear but not much food left. After all, we’d expected to return to a fully stocked kitchen—and probably another feast in our honor. Instead, we’d faced a horror beyond imagining. If it had been just me, if I had not had Liam with me, I think I’d have given up. For shifters, pack was everything. Family, friends, support system. Sometimes someone married into another pack, but the connection formed by that mating would serve to unite the two, like extended family.

Our pack had been rather isolated, which was one of the reasons we’d intended to visit others. Unfortunately, we’d been all about being alone together and in love and never made it that far. Now…well, now we had a whole slew of problems that innocent honeymoon couples did not. Or at least did not know they did. While our families were dying, we were enjoying romantic sunsets and frolicking four-legged. Making love. My stomach churned as I tried not to chant over and over in my head that I should have