Chapter 354

“We can’t keep ignoring what happens to them. We’ve done it for too long, and this time, if we do it again, none of them will be alive by morning. I can’t fail them anymore…. what kind of alpha does that make me?” He drops his chin to his chest, breaking his focus on me, and I catch the moist sheen over his eyes from here as he battles with the turmoil of this situation. His guilt is heavy because I know he’s struggled all these months with what to do about the ones we left behind. It’s plagued him endlessly. “We could warn them, make them leave… get those out that we can in daylight. I mean, they still need darkness to attack, right? So, we have time?” Carmen tries to find a solution with a somewhat upbeat tone as she perches on the edge of her seat. I sink my head into my hands and rub my temples in defeated exhaustion. My brain is throbbing, and emotions are simultaneously strangling me. Anxiety is growing and hemming me in at the wall and hard place we find ourselves lodged. “If th