7.8During a medical emergency, Sophie cannot reach anyone willing to leave her sister's birthday party. It is the ninety-ninth time her family and fiancé have chosen someone else. She stops pleading for their attention and quietly begins preparing to leave.
7.2After devoting her previous life to family, the narrator was asked by Adrian Northgate and their son to release him for Sophia Harrington. Reborn at mate registration, she gives her sister the dress, ring and place beside Adrian. While they head south to fight, she leaves for werewolf university in the northern grasslands, pursuing medical studies and the freedom she once postponed.