Chapter 217

Celena's Perspective This was utterly bizarre. What the hell was Jacob playing at? He came to me this morning, clammed up like a locked vault, and now he's vanished into thin air. Lily found me and handed me a folded note, her brow furrowed so deeply it looked like it could trap flies. "Found this at your door," she said, her tone grim. "Haven't opened it." Then I learned that Jacob, that idiot, had hastily sent a vague farewell to everyone through the pack link! At first, no one thought much of it—seriously, a cooped-up wolf blowing off steam after recovering from an injury is perfectly normal, right? But then the patrol team returned with somber faces, reporting they'd seen him charge straight past the territory boundary, and... he'd unilaterally shut down the link! It was like he'd sealed himself inside an impenetrable iron box. My heart plummeted, fingers turning icy. I unfolded the paper to see Jacob's familiar, slight