Northstar Vale We are the ones who will never be broken

He insisted no one blamed her but it was the aftermath she worried of—if something were to come of it, what then? How could they not blame the healer who had given the location and names of a pair of lovers who had fled their prior life?

She didn’t have the energy to even argue it with him—time would tell. When Tamar began to show signs of bearing another litter, their older children coming to the tender age of their first year and suddenly Akashingo was knocking on their doorstep? Her throat constricted.

So, instead, she focused on the thrum of Reyson’s heartbeat, digging deeper down, trying to find an ounce of the self she had been even just days before instead of this hollow shell.