Jay’s lab always smelled faintly of silver leaf, an herb that could calm most wolves.
He set down the last test report and looked up at me.
Hesitation. Something hard to say.
“Julie, there’s one more thing I have to tell you,” he said. “About your car accident back then.”
My heart jumped hard.
“Tell me.”
Jay drew a deep breath, weighing each word.
“In that accident… you lost an extreme amount of blood. Normal transfusions couldn’t arrive in time. They had to give you an emergency Alpha blood sample.”
He paused.
“And that blood came from—”
Jay lowered his eyes.
“William.”
In that instant, time seemed to stop moving.
This man who had humiliated me for years, doubted me, stomped my dignity, sent me into the Moon Prison, swapped my child, pushed my wolf-soul to the edge of death,
