SERENA'S POV
I put the photograph of my mother face down on the table. Looking at it only gave me more questions I couldn't answer. I pushed the door open and walked outside into the cold air to clear my head.
Kyle followed behind me. He was watching my steps like he expected me to fall over at any second. "You should eat something," he said. "Your body took a heavy beating during that shift."
"I'm fine," I muttered.
I looked out over Eldoria. The stone houses and dirt roads looked quiet, like nothing bad ever happened here. For twenty-one years, I thought I was just a broken daughter in the Sterling Pack. Now I had an ancient crest on my wrist and an Alpha cousin who ran an entire hidden town.
It was a lot to take in. But no matter how hard I tried to think about my bloodline, my min
