My heart dropped as I took a shaky step back. “Maybe… maybe you’re wrong. Maybe there’s more you don’t know.”
Zayne’s expression hardened again. The softness, that moment of weakness, vanished like smoke.
“Get out, Aurora,” he said, low and final. “Before I forget who you are.”
I didn’t move. My heart ached, but my feet refused to obey. I wanted to tell him I wasn’t my father. That's what I wanted to prove him wrong. That the same blood didn’t mean the same sins.
But then his eyes flashed gold again, and I saw the beast pushing through, the shadow of the lycan who had lost control once before.
He turned away sharply, slamming his fist against the wall. The sound made the candles relight for a second, their flames revealing the portrait again, the golden-haired woman smiling down on bo
