It wasn’t just the silence that weighed on me. It was the truth I had uncovered, a truth so heavy that it threatened to crush the very foundation of everything I thought I knew. My fingers trembled as I sifted through the letters and ancient texts, the remnants of my past that I had stumbled upon in Elias’s hidden study.
I had always known there was something unusual about me, something that set me apart, but this? This was more than I had ever imagined. The lineage I had inherited was not just any bloodline. It was one that connected me to both packs—Elias’s and Magnus’s—tethering me to both of their fates in ways I never thought possible.
A light tap on the door interrupted my thoughts, and I quickly shoved the papers into a drawer, pretending that I was still in control. The door crea
