“I don’t care that it’s forbidden! You can give me as many lashes as you want and it won’t change my—”
“Forbidden! Oh for God’s sake, that stupid rule has caused more misery!” she interrupted, cross. She pointed at her chest. “Did you know that my mother was human? And my father was Alpha—and he was put to death for loving her?”
Everyone knew that. Her father was the most powerful Alpha ever, the Skinwalker himself. His treason was the stuff of legend. Hawk nodded.
“And did you know that I grew up on the run, hiding, hunted, until the day my father was taken away—and after that my mother drank herself to death? And after that I was alone and scared and even more miserable than before?”
Hawk opened his mouth, then shut it again. The room had become very quiet.
“And my unborn nephew is
