Neither of them spoke for a long moment, the implication of what they'd just uncovered settling over the study like a physical weight.
"It's not possible," Lyra finally whispered, though even as she said it, some deep, instinctive part of her recognized the truth in Kael's silence, in the way her wolf had gone quiet and settled every single time she stood close to him, in a way it never had around Damian even before the rejection.
"The Moon Goddess does not choose fathers and sons for the same bloodline by accident," Kael said, his voice low and rough. "If this passage is correct, and the curse was concealing the truth of your true mate, then Damian's bond to you was never real at all. It was a shield. A misdirection, meant to protect you both until the bloodline was strong enough to sur
