Callie’s POV I felt betrayed. Deceived. Used. How was this even possible? Lila’s last words only confirmed what I had already begun to suspect. Of course. That was the real reason she had their phone numbers—not because they had given them to her that morning before going to the twins’ house, but because they had been in contact for… what? Years? Since when had Lila been in my life to “protect” me? And was it really protection… or surveillance? I couldn’t believe it. And that wasn’t even the worst part. The worst part was that Lila had always known who I really was—what was happening to me now, this awakening Jonas had mentioned… being a— A werewolf? Now that I was far from the twins, surrounded only by the silence of the forest, the idea sounded absurd. Childish, even. Wh

