CHAPTER 51

Almost two weeks had gone by since Carter Polver lost the Blood Challenge to his fifth-born son, Russel. It’s also been almost two weeks since Lola had, somehow, managed to fight and kill a werewolf woman from the kingdom of Harvenk named Nora. The shock of what she’d done, coupled with the immense trauma she’d been through, caused a severe reaction to her mental state. Unresponsive for the most part, she spent the next several days in her room pretty much alone, taking food and drink from a human servant Russel sent in on a regular basis. The king met with her himself during that time but couldn’t get through to her more often than not. She would just stare at him, her mind still stuck in a horrible loop of death and destruction. Of loss and pain. She would see her parents again, burning to death. See her village being obliterated by cruel, monstrous werewolves. She would be in the forest again, fighting off ghouls. Then all that would slip past her and memories of Russel, out of cont