ADOPTED?! My knees went weak. Instantly Dawson was there to catch me, whisking me over to the couch again and sitting me down. My father followed, looking panicked. I shivered violently.
“Just breathe, Gaia. It’s alright.” Dawson rubbed my back soothingly.
“I’m adopted?” I breathed.
My father nodded, his eyes wide. “Your mother…we couldn’t have children and we wanted one so desperately…you were an orphan, abandoned after a car crash…we fell in love with you immediately…we had no idea your parents were…”
“But that’s not entirely true, is it?” Dawson’s voice was low and dangerous as he looked at my father, who paled. “I thought I scented another wolf here when I first arrived, but once I met Gaia I just assumed it was her. But it wasn’t. Someone else of our kind has been here. Someone I
