The phone slipped from my hand and landed on the floor with a crack.
"No..." I stumbled backwards until my back hit the rough surface of a tree trunk.
This… This can't be real." My vision swam with tears.
The bright light from my phone screen still illuminated the ground. Without a second thought, I grabbed it with shaking hands and raised it back up to my ear.
"Why am I a hybrid?" I yelled, voice raw with a growing anger. "Answer me!"
There was a beat of silence, then her familiar, emotionless voice replied through the speaker. "You are not human, Nyxara."
"You are both a vampire...and a werewolf."
"What?" My lungs collapsed.
"You heard me."
"That's impossible." I shook my head furiously. "I refuse to believe that vampires are real talk of hybrids."
"You don't have the lux
