Planning a confrontation with your adoptive father who may or may not be conspiring with a dark witch turns out to be complicated.
We spend three more hours in the library, fueled by coffee and grim determination, mapping out every angle. Luna Ava pulls up communication records between the Blackthorn Pack and the Gray Pack over the past decade. Kade contacts allied Alphas, carefully fishing for information about Marcus without revealing why. Kieran digs through more archives, looking for any historical connection between the Gray family and known practitioners of dark magic.
I stare at Celeste's photograph and try not to think about the fact that the man who raised me might have been selling information about me to the woman who wants to harvest my blood.
By three in the morning, we hav
