The name hit the room like a slap.
“Crescent Moon Pack.”
I’d never heard it before tonight. But the way the Alpha said it, like it tasted like poison, told me everything.
“They’re extinct,” Marcus said, disbelief thick in his voice. He was still watching me, but now his suspicion had a target outside the room. “The Nightfang purge wiped them out twenty years ago.”
“Apparently not all of them,” the Alpha replied. He was pacing now, a habit I’d learned meant he couldn’t shift to burn off the rage. His golden eyes were narrowed, calculating. “If they’re back, they didn’t come for Kael. They came for her.”
All eyes turned to me again.
“Why?” I asked. My voice came out steadier than I felt. “I don’t even know them. I don’t know my mother’s past.”
“Because of your mother,” t
