Chapter 76

MADELINE’S POV  It was time. Time to return back to Oceanwolf Pack. Three years had passed, yet it felt like I had spent a lifetime here.  Memories of Oceanwolf Pack came rushing back, and with them, a mix of emotions I couldn’t quite name. Nostalgia. Fear. Anger. Courage. It was all tangled together in such a way that made my heart heavy.  But I was no longer the same girl. The same naïve, servant girl that everyone could trample on. I had grown past that. I had changed. I had molded myself into something stronger.  Still, the thought of walking back to Oceanwolf Pack made me tremble, leaving me with uncertainties. And there was one last chain I needed to break.  Alpha Konan.  He was my final prison, the one tie to the person I used to be. I didn’t know what would happen when I saw him again, but I did know one thing: I wasn’t going back to serve him or anyone.  I thought back on my time here in Crescent Pack—from the first day I arrived, to the Stealth and Stalk training that earned