MACKENZIE
Through the blur of my tears, I saw her—Aunt Susan—her face twisted in heartbreak. But in that moment, my own pain drowned out everything else. It was too overwhelming. Too agonizing. I had been lied to for years. My entire life shaped by a truth no one had dared to tell me.
I had resented a man I had never even met. A father I assumed had abandoned us. And now I find out he was never just some man—he was part of an entirely different world. A world I was born from but never told about. A world of wolves, secrets, and silence.
I couldn't look at her.
Not right now. Not when all I could feel was betrayal.
I swallowed hard, my throat burning, and wiped at my face with shaking fingers. Without saying a word, I stood and turned, walking out of the room before my sobs betrayed j
