What You Are Isn't Normal
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The silence between us didn’t last.
It couldn’t.
Not after what had just happened.
I folded my arms slightly, holding his gaze, refusing to let him shut me out again.
“You said you were protecting me,” I began. “Then start doing it properly—by telling me the truth.”
Kael didn’t answer immediately.
He looked at the broken door, at the unconscious creatures, then back at me like he was measuring something.
Not my strength.
My readiness.
“You won’t like it,” he said.
“I don’t care.”
“You will,” he replied quietly. “Because once you hear it… you can’t go back to who you were before.”
A small, bitter smile touched my lips.
“I don’t think that version of me exists anymore.”
That seemed to settle something in him.
He exhaled slowly, then stepped closer—not threatening, just serious.
“Those creatures,” he said, gesturing toward the bodies on the floor, “they don’t just hunt randomly. They follow power.”
“I figured that much.”
“No,” he said. “You don’t understand. They don’t just sense power… they’re drawn to specific kinds of it.”
My chest tightened.
“And mine is one of those kinds?”
“Yes.”
The answer came too quickly.
Too easily.
“What kind?” I asked.
Kael hesitated.
Then—
“Ancient.”
The word hung in the air.
Cold.
Heavy.
“Ancient?” I repeated.
“There are bloodlines in this world that predate the packs you know,” he explained. “Bloodlines that were never meant to mix with ordinary wolves.”
A chill ran through me.
“And you think I’m one of them?”
“I don’t think,” he said again.
“I know.”
My hand moved slowly to my stomach, that warmth responding immediately—like it was aware of every word being said.
“Then why didn’t anyone know?” I asked. “Why didn’t I know?”
“Because it was hidden,” he replied.
“Hidden how?”
Kael’s expression darkened slightly.
“Sealed,” he said. “Something suppressed it. Locked it away so it couldn’t surface.”
My breath caught.
“And the rejection…” I started.
“…broke the seal,” he finished.
Silence fell.
Heavy.
Unavoidable.
“So everything that’s happening now…” I said slowly, trying to piece it together, “this power… this connection…”
“It was always yours,” Kael said.
The words hit deeper than I expected.
Because that meant—
I had never been weak.
Never been ordinary.
I had just been… unaware.
“That still doesn’t explain why they want me,” I said.
Kael’s gaze dropped briefly to my stomach again.
“They don’t just want you,” he said quietly.
“They want what you can become.”
A chill ran through me.
“And what is that?”
For a moment—
He didn’t answer.
And something about that silence felt dangerous.
Because whatever he was about to say—
It wasn’t something simple.
It wasn’t something safe.
Finally, he met my eyes again.
“Something that could change the balance between every pack,” he said.
My heart skipped.
“Or destroy it.”
The words lingered in the air.
Heavy.
Final.
And for the first time—
I realized this wasn’t just about survival anymore.
This wasn’t just about being hunted.
This was about power.
About control.
About something much bigger than me.
And somehow—
I was standing right at the center of it. 😈🔥
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