Secrets in the Silence

Valerie’s POV

The entire pack was supposed to be celebrating. Music, fireworks, wolves howling in joy across the hills, the young ones parading their gifts and lineage with pride. The annual pack anniversary was always a grand thing. Always. But not this year.

This year, the halls were soaked in silence, the kind that settles on your shoulders and bends your bones. The kind that tasted like sorrow