Lydia’s POV
The announcement hit Hopkins like a storm front, and by Monday morning, it was the only thing anyone could talk about.
“Did you hear?” one of the interns whispered as I passed the nurses station, not bothering to lower her voice enough to actually keep it a secret. “A joint research initiative. With the Moore pack.”
My stomach dropped before my brain even finished processing the name.
Moore?
No…it had to be a coincidence. There had to be dozens of Moores scattered across the packs, and surely fate wasn’t cruel enough to hand me this particular one twice in the same summer.
Fate, as it turned out, was exactly that cruel.
By midday, the whole hospital had confirmed what I’d been dreading since I first heard the announcement; Ethan Moore had been selected as his pack’s lead
