The Apologies Came Too Late

On her eighteenth birthday, a young werewolf collapses in the pack clinic after yet another blood donation, a grim routine she has endured for years. The story follows her strained bond with the family and the pack that have long relied on her, and the painful gap between the devotion she has shown and the care she has received in return. As the cost of that devotion becomes impossible to ignore, long-buried hurt starts to surface, and the apologies that finally arrive may be too late to heal what has been broken.