I stood in front of my mother, her pale face a mask of worry, as the weight of her silence pressed on me. The cold stone walls of the pack house seemed to close in around us. My heart beat erratically in my chest, as though it knew that today was the day my world would be shattered once more. The secret I was about to hear was more than just a revelation—it was a reckoning.
“Lena, you need to understand something,” Talia said, her voice steady but strained. “Everything you’ve been told… it’s all been a lie.”
I clenched my fists, my nails digging into my palms. “What are you talking about, Mother? What’s a lie?”
She took a deep breath, her eyes never leaving mine. “Your bloodline. You’re not just any wolf, Lena. You are of royal descent, a bloodline tied to the highest families in our wo
