Chapter One Hundred–Forty–Eight
DRAVEN
The daughter of on Alpha? An Alpha Wolf Shifter? Me? I shake my head, the carefully structured just a tiny bit more than before. Do you know what?” 1
the mail. I hop out of the car to stand toe to toe with the so called Alpha Wolf that on
His golden eyes twinkle, filling with tears, and I force myself not to see them. Force myself. myself not to care that all the answers to all the questions that I ever had while growing
let my love Bost zeey
What my little darling? Tell me, he whispers, his chest shuddering as tear streaks down his cheek,
danding right in fecer of me
I shake my head at him, wagging my finger in warning. “You see, the thing is, I know a little apparently don’t. And while I cant, on God’s good Earth, fathom why you would lie to me about being a about them, you see – just a tiny little thing really – but yet it is significant enough for me to kesa that you can’t be selling the don’t know what you planned to gain from me with your lies, but I’ve got somewhere to be my feet forward.
“Your n
mate and his pack have force shifted,” he states matter–of–factly, and 1 spin back around. He shrugs his shoulders, his growing ple eyes shimmering with an almost liquid quality as they absorb the moons silver light. They’ve done so every night
the time they hit puberty.”
My eyebrows drop into a straight line, my lips opening and closing like the lips of a dying fish on the pier. I am working to hide my interest, but I hear Taedora snort in the Hummer and I send her a warning glare over my shoulder
Gio continues, “Actually, most American Wolf Shifters experience the forced shift, but not all. Some are descendants of de Your mate and his pack… they are descended from an entirely different Bloodline than you and 1. my darling. The West Coast of the United States is much younger than the East. There weren’t nearly as many immigrants that settled on this side during the Great Migration. Your mate’s family is more than likely Nordic, or Scandinavian, or perhaps even German Centuries ago, a large number of the traveled to Canada and what is now Alaska. It is said that they spent so much time in darkness, that their blood began to reject the light They evolved into beings that craved the lunar rays of the moon so much, that sunlight became hazardous for them. With each generation, they migrated a little farther south. Out of the darkness and into the sun. But wolves of this bloodline are forced to shift v the full power of the moon us upon them, because their blood craves balance. One night as a pure wolf, and the rest spent as a wolf
shifter.”
“That’s crazy,” I hear Taedora comment, and that is when I notice that she has climbed out of the car to listen to my – no, no–to Gia the same way that I seem to be.
“What you have to try and understand is that long ago, shihers spent more time as wolves than they did as humans. Now, it is complete opposite, Gio pointed out.
“So, what you’re saying, is that there are some wolves that don’t force shift. Some like you?” I ask carefully, crossing my arms and stepping back toward the open car door. Something about this new knowledge is firing around in my brain. My neurons are zigrigging like lightning bolts into uncharted brain territory. “I don’t know, Glo,” I say coldly. “I mean, to be honest, I do even know for sure that you my father. I know you re on my birth certificate. I know at one time I loved you so much that 1- Casping, I clamp my eyes shut and my trap shut too. The searing pain of the past ambushing me with brute force. Riding up on me dannounced, unwelcomed, and completely unexpected. Suddenly, I was biting down so hard to simply keep my lips closed, that the roof of my mouth began to hurt. A wailing began to tremble and vibrate behind my lips, but I refused to set it free, I tried to swallow it, but it just would not budge! And Tardora reached out a hand to squeeze mine, she ruined everything!
I fell against her, her arms closing around me and tears poured from my eyes. A child’s scream tore from my lips as I wailed Holy Hell into her shoulder. I screamed, and I screamed, only settling down when I remembered the baby. Taking a few steadying breaths, I nodded for Tae to get into the Hummer, we were so, so late. I turned once again to Lace Gio, my throat thick with pain.
“I have been shattered for so long, my girl. So long, Gio’s eyes glint with moisture but I am thankful he doesn’t let the tears fall. I
probably would have thought it a trick, if he had. Or a ploy to make me feel guilty
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Chapter One Hundred Forty Eight
thought her father loved her so much,
showed the
I cried out softly, not wanting to get too upurt. 1 screened much! I waited and waited for days, weeks media
that you finally understood how much I hurt.
one of them was you! Coming back to to. “I brok
that was supposed to love me more than anyone
uselessly, suddenly wishing Leould drink some fucking alrobot, but kooking
the sadness. Because I honestly had no recollection of
left me with Is “ I stutter, realizing I was just about to
flash upward. “My m–mother, I say, but Gio is shaking his head sadly to pathogens of me and Bases from decades ago, begin coiling and uncoiling in my min
mind packed away. Old friends, much older
in a book, Different people trying to care for
rgrening and tronding
“Enough,” Gia finally says. a voice that is so low and a deep
now. Calm yourself, my darling Calm yourself”
There’s something in his voice. It commands me. Its not soothing
- a. Taking the choice of whether or not I remember away from me fun the mRCIEĽ
My breath shudders, and 1 actually manage a slight smile. Thank you
He nods, his eyes still glistening with liquid gold as he watches me. The wrong of me without your mate around. He is your equal, your strength, yo
too painful for you to unravel on your own.”
I smile gratefully watching him walk toward the front gate. “Watt 1 out
He turns, and that’s when I see the two men unfold from the shadows along the wall. They drop down im
yes glowing amber in the dark.
“Yes, my darling?”
I swallow the sudden sadness that threatens to choke me. “The woma
his eyes.
I’m glad when he doesn’t make me say the words. “Her name
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