There was silence all over the greenhouse and the only sound heard was Mia’s own jagged breathing. Leo stood right in front of her, his dark eyes fixed on hers, waiting for the truth he had already guessed.
"How come you are a hybrid?" Mia finally asked, her voice steadying as she realized there was no point in lying anymore.
Leo let out a long, heavy sigh and leaned back against a rusted table. "My mum was human," he said simply. "She died after giving birth to me. My dad is a wolf, a high-ranked one, as you noticed. He moved us here to this human town because a hybrid doesn't exactly fit into a pack of 'pure' warriors. To them, I’m just a half- wolf. Someone who has the senses but is still wolfless. So I was just like an extra weight to them.”
He looked down at his fingers. "It’s a lo
