Taking a shuddering breath, she began. “The night you rejected me, I found out that my family… they weren’t really my family. They found me as an abandoned baby, Drew. I’d always thought... But I was never really theirs. That night, I ran. I didn’t even have a wolf to shift into. I just ran, as far as my legs could take me. Perhaps that was a blessing in disguise. I was a shifter with such a weak wolf, so neither was I detected by anyone from Silver Star pack, nor any of the other packs. It also helped that my parents had forgotten my eighteenth birthday, hence I wasn't initiated as an adult.”
Drew’s mouth parted slightly, as if he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
“Do you know where I went?” she continued, a bitter laugh slipping out. “I found a human town. Stayed there for a while
