LORI
“What the f**k is that?” I asked. I meant to sound brave, but the tremble in my voice betrayed me.
She glanced around, lowering her voice. “It’s not just a bloodline. It’s... it’s power. Older than the packs, older than the Council, older than anything they teach you here. The Lunaris line was supposed to die out generations ago. Your grandmother made sure no one knew who we really were.”
“I thought Grandma was human.”
“She wasn’t.”
“Are you?”
“I was born into it. Just never... activated.”
“Activated?” I laughed again, no humor this time, only heat. “What am I, a damn remote control?”
“You were always going to shift,” she said, voice wobbling now. “But Lunaris shifters don’t get the luxury of a soft first shift. It’s violent and raw. Triggered by emotion, trauma or rage. It b
