Avery POV
I was quivering. My breath came in short, ragged gasps, and beads of sweat formed on my forehead. My chest tightened, and I clutched my stomach, trying to steady myself, but the weight of what I had just witnessed pressed down on me like an avalanche.
Mother and I had grown distant over the years, but even so, I was still her daughter.
Why?
Why would she agree to this? Why didn’t she stop them? Worse, why was she their master planner? What could she possibly gain from this?
A million unanswered questions clawed at my mind, each one more suffocating than the last.
I pushed down my nausea and forced my limbs into action, using my wolf’s power to propel myself out of that suffocating place. The box…was clutched tightly in my arms. I had it. But at the last moment, I miscalcul
