*Soren*
Mila raced up the steps and I was hot on her heels. I glanced around at the bodies and realized this was the burnt out remains of a pack house. It was the pack members’ bodies all over the lawn, their blood staining the walls.
I slowed slightly and took a closer look around.
If this was a pack house, then the couple we’d seen playing with their child on the swing were the alpha and luna. There was no doubt in my mind. This was their pack and it had been decimated.
Worse than that, I suspected this was Mila’s birth pack, which meant those two were her parents.
The only thing I couldn’t figure out was why the girl had bouncing, curly blond hair as a little girl but now, as an adult, she had soft, brunette hair.
The rest of it made sense. Her parents and their pack had been wiped out, which was why she’d been orphaned. If the pack had survived, someone else would have raised her as the daughter of an alpha and luna. Instead, she’d been left to fend for herself.