“She abandoned me!” Harper’s composure cracks, revealing the raw fury beneath. “She died protecting you instead of living and raising me! She gave up everything—my father, our pack, her future—all for her little Eclipse Born freak!”
“You are the reason she died,” Gareth snarls, his face still inches from mine. “If she had handed you over like she was supposed to, she’d still be alive. Harper would have had her mother. But no—she had to play the martyr for her half-breed bastard.”
The truth crashes down on me like a tidal wave. My mother didn’t die protecting me from some faceless enemy. She died choosing me over Harper. Over the life she could have had. Over the daughter she abandoned.
“She chose wrong,” Harper whispers, tears streaming down her face. “And now, you’re going to pay for i
