THALIA
Reliving the worst day of my life wasn’t exactly something I’d love to do, but I owed Rael the truth. Not because he demanded it, but because he was the one who raised Elias, and because he loved my son when I wasn’t there to do it, and he was also protecting the child the same way I’m trying to now.
I took a slow breath, trying to steady myself.
“Elias, my son…” I trailed off and couldn’t stop my voice from shaking, “Darius and his pack believed that I killed him, that I went feral and murdered my own son.”
“What?” Rael reacted in disbelief.
I was pretty sure that he had quite a number of guesses, but didn’t see this one coming. It’s not every day you hear a pack accusing a mother of killing her newborn child.
“I had a normal pregnancy,” I continued. “There were rough days,
