*
For a long time after Shiela spoke, everyone remained silent. It was so quiet that a pin drop could have been heard in the room. Not a single hair stirred, and all of them remained in stunned silence.
The heaviest silence of all came from Sierra, who looked on in disbelief as she tried to process what Shiela had just said. It was an impossible thing to understand, and an even more impossible thing to try and accept.
It had to be a lie. Surely it had to be. Her father would never do something like this. He had lied to her in the past, of course, but this was different. This was an entirely new level of betrayal, and one which she could never recover from if it was proven to be true.
But surely there must be some element of truth to it. Sheila had been a member of their pack after a
