Chapter 24: Ghosting

I return the coat to the line and morph into werewolf form, running for the palace. I wonder if the real owner will even notice it went missing.

The forest engulfs me, welcomes me home and I embrace its quiet, the night-time stillness of it, more kind to me than anything I'll find back under my grandfather's rule. How can I make this right? And do I want to? The more I think about it, the more my anger tells me Oleksander is blowing this way out of proportion, and that all of my fear about telling him in the first place was unfounded. It was a love affair, not a betrayal of my people. And it's over. Sage knows nothing about me, or the werenation. And it's not like other werewolves haven't mated with normals. I'm hardly the first one to do it. But I'm the very first wereprincess, aren't I? And heaven forbid I muddy our precious bloodline with the taint of a normal.