ARIA POV
I ducked as a rock flew past my head and smashed against the wall behind me.
"Traitor!" someone yelled from the crowd gathering outside our safe house.
Three days had passed since we fled the cave. Three days since my mother sacrificed herself. Three days of hiding as pack members turned against us.
"Get inside," Kael demanded, shoving me through the door and blocking another flying stone with his arm.
The small house in the north woods had become our hideout. As the full moon grew closer, the pack grew more antsy. Rumors spread like wildfire—that I had killed Alpha Darius, that I practiced dark magic, that I had bewitched the triplets.
Lucien slammed the door shut behind us, his face tight with anger. "It's getting worse. The Shadow Alpha has turned half the pack against us."
"What about my father?" I asked, the word still strange on my tongue. "Any word from him?"
Jaxon shook his head. "Nothing since the messenger came yesterday."
