The silence in the room stretched long after the council had left, leaving Jeffrey in the suffocating weight of their words. Find a new Luna. It echoed in his mind, loud and invasive, but the one thought that kept clawing at him was Kenneth. His wolf, Kai, had been growling in the back of his mind the entire time. The bond he once shared with Kenneth was now broken, yet something still tethered him to the idea that Kenneth’s death—no, his fate—wasn't as it seemed. And now, the council had dropped this talk about Kenneth’s body, about it rotting unnaturally fast.
He sat down heavily in one of the chairs, Hannah still hovering beside him. She was saying something about understanding, about how they’d get through this together, but Jeffrey wasn’t listening. His mind was somewhere else—somewh
