Chapter 116: The pack is hurting

At her words. Memories of Hycinth floated through my mind…her barely able to get out of bed and the haunted look in her dead eyes. I shook my head sadly. “Hycinth may have had the willpower to walk away, but what good is it when she’s left miserable without him?” Sydney studied my expression. “Hycinth really wants to come back?” Bringing my other knee up, I rested both elbows on them and nodded. “She’d been making strides…grieving and facing the past. I hoped it would only be a matter of time before she was strong enough to make the decision on her own, and I think she was getting there slowly but surely. But she’s devastated after everything the Oracle told us yesterday. Alpha Grant hurt so many wolves in his effort to manipulate her future. Right now, she’s internalizing guilt for all of them and can’t see how anyone would want her when she was the catalyst for all of the pain.” Sydney contemplated my words. “The pack is hurting now without their Luna and the effect her absence has h