MILDRED

THAW HIS FROZEN HEART

Enid was lost. He looked lost beyond what I had ever known anyone to be.

The fears in his eyes were bare and he did not try to mask them. He stood where I was staring right at me.

As though he was pulled out of whatever it was that dazed him, he muttered a curse and turned back out of the kitchen.

The sound of the front door suggested he was gone from the building. I was afraid. The Outlanders attack was a vicious one. It claimed the lives of defenders and if they broke into the pack then things could be pretty ugly....