MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Seventy Two — The File
The room did not move.
Nobody breathed.
Nobody spoke.
Mara looked at the file in her hands.
At the name on the cover.
Davan Voss.
She looked at Maren.
"He is alive," she said.
"Yes," Maren said.
"Nineteen years," she said.
"Yes," Maren said.
Mara looked at the file.
She thought about being four years old.
About a record being altered.
About a man who had been somewhere else for nineteen years while she grew up invisible in a pack that had forgotten she existed.
She felt her wolf.
Not warm.
Not certain.
Something else.
Something that did not have a clean name.
Something between grief and anger and the specific hollow feeling of a story you thought you knew turning into something completely different.
She put the fi
