Livia POV
Ever since my conversation with Jax, a gnawing unease has settled deep in my stomach, an ominous sense I can’t shake. It’s as though every story my mother once told is shifting, showing me a truth my father tried to keep hidden. She used to tell me tales of the Goddess’s death—how the other gods turned against her, killing her for creating an “abomination” on earth. I always thought she meant werewolves as a whole, a cautionary tale about the price of our nature. But now… I wonder if she knew about the curse, if she believed I was truly meant to be the cure.
Did my father know this truth? If so, why would he deny a union between Zeke and me? If he understood it could break the curse, bring peace to our kind, then why would he stand in the way? I would have agreed, without quest
