#Chapter 7 Ultimatums: Round Two

Elroy paused, several emotions flitting across his face in quick succession. I didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to decipher them all, though, not with everything I’d been through in the last few hours—let alone the last two weeks. I put my hand over my baby as I tried to come up with the ghost of a new plan. I was banished, and that meant that I—and my baby—could be attacked if I so much as saw someone from Moonshadow in the grocery store. It was too dangerous to stay in Lunaris. It was a three-day journey to the nearest city, and I had no money to pay someone to escort me through the Rogues safely. Besides, I was basically stained now. No wolf would take me, no matter what pack they were from. That just left humans, and there was only one human company that traded with nearby cities. I’d have to go to them and hope they’d let me unload their trucks in exchange for a ride. Yeah, that could work. I’d have to restart my life from nothing, with no one in my corner, but me a