Bella:
For a moment, it felt as though the ground had been snatched from beneath me. All I wanted was to disappear. They had gone through my phone, and I wished they had kept it to themselves.
“So?” Ryder asked, crossing his arms over his chest. I took a deep breath, steadying myself.
“Sebastian was my boyfriend in the Rune pack. His father is beta, and we were close growing up. Then something happened last year, causing a separation. That’s why I came to this pack.”
Ryder scrunched up his face. “I thought your mum said it was her turn to raise you or something like that.” I looked at the innocence in his face, wondering how it would shatter when he realized he’d been living with a murderer.
I shook my head, staring down at my feet.
“So, what happened?” Finn asked. He was sitting on
