Chapter9

Everything was settled. Caleb returned to the small cottage we had built together. Alone, he silently polished the relics I had left behind. He cleaned them for me every day, as if I might still return one day. Until that afternoon, a knock suddenly sounded at the door. Caleb's hand, holding the wolf fang pendant, tightened sharply. He thought it might be Gabriel or Elma. But when he opened the door and saw the face outside, his pupils constricted violently. It was Celeste. She wore a dark cloak, a fresh scar visible on her face. "How is it you?" Without waiting for an invitation, Celeste strode into the cottage. Her gaze swept the room before finally landing on the wolf fang pendant on the table. "Caleb, I loved you so much, and you deceived me so cruelly." She picked up the pendant, her fingertips digging into the already misshapen silver wolf fang. "You destroyed my family, brought down the Shadowfang Pack. But you didn't expect this, did you? I'm still alive." "You st