I smiled faintly. "He wronged me this deeply. You think I can just turn the page? I need to make him pay first."
That same day, I took Hildegarde to the Thornwood Pack compound and sent word inside.
"Tell Finn Thornwood his mate has come home."
The guards at the gate took one look at my tattered clothes, wrinkled their noses, and moved to shove us away. I could feel them sizing us up, two wolves deciding we were beneath their notice. One of them bared his teeth.
"Where'd you rogues crawl out from? This is the Thornwood Alpha's compound!"
"The Luna is hosting a banquet for the most powerful Alphas in the capital. If you disturb her guests, you and your little runt won't have enough lives to pay for it!"
"Go on, get! Get out of here!"
I'd expected exactly this. I deliberately stepped back, dropped to my knees, and raised my voice for the whole street to hear.
"Someone help me get justice! Finn Thornwood mated me six years ago in a proper ceremony. I bore him a pup! He promised to bring me back within three years and make me his Luna. But now that he's the Alpha, he left me and my child in the borderlands eating scraps and foraged roots! Is that something a wolf with any honor does?!"