#Chapter 238: Awakened

Audrey I slumped against Edwin, my entire body heavy with exhaustion as we trudged out of that forest. Each step felt like painstaking, the icy ground too hard even beneath my wolf paws, and every movement sent a dull ache through my muscles. Without Edwin’s strong arm wrapped firmly around my waist the moment I shifted back into my human form, I wasn’t sure I would have the strength to continue. Ahead, I could make out the vehicles waiting for us where the road finally began again, their dark forms silhouetted against the fading twilight. Had we really been in the forest for that long…? It felt like minutes and hours and seconds and days all at once. As soon as we broke through the treeline, a group of Edwin’s warriors rushed forward and took Fiona and Axel from us. The prisoners looked like mere shadows of their former selves—heads bowed low, shoulders slumped in defeat. A small part of me twisted with satisfaction at their downfall, especially when I