My ears rang with disbelief. It couldn’t be possible. David wouldn’t do that. The man I called my adoptive father, he wouldn’t do that—he had warned me all my life about dangerous other shifters, only to have been working with them all this time…? And be responsible for the murder of Gavin’s parents, his own allies? Did I even really know David Hexen?
The reactions of the others were a symphony of anger, despair, and confusion. Deep betrayal darkened their faces. A man they all thought they could trust had just shoved a knife into their collective backs, revealing himself as the antagonist after years of friendship, years of guidance and altruism; all of it a plot to weaken the foundations of his ally pack, to prepare it to be taken over. Everyone muttered these revelations out loud, equ
