Mary immediately seized the core of it. "What do you mean? Why would animals stay away from her?"
I curved my lips into a cold smile. "Because we're nothing more than scent soothers by birth, not true curse breakers. For every woman in the Cape family, her scent can only bond with one man."
I glanced at Siana. "The moment her scent gets polluted by different men's body odor, that mixed trace becomes like a territory marked by intruders to a werewolf. It can't soothe him. It only stirs his beast instincts."
Mary covered her mouth in shock.
"So generation after generation, the Chase family has always stayed strictly monogamous. No one has ever heard of a woman soothing two men at once. Because once a scent is tainted, it doesn't save anyone. It turns the woman herself into the trigger,"
