I gasped, locking my gaze with his piercing eyes. “My father... did what?” I whispered, my voice trembling with disbelief.
“You heard me,” Hadrian said, his smirk as cold as his tone. “Now, tell me... would you be so eager to ‘protect’ a child of your mother’s killer?”
“I’m nothing like him!” I snapped, the words escaping in a fiery burst. “I don’t even share his features! You know as well as I do that his appearance is determined by the wolf gene, which I don’t have!”
“Is that supposed to make me want to protect you from him?” he sneered, the mocking lilt in his voice cutting deeper than I cared to admit.
I clenched my teeth, my mind racing. There was no way to erase my tracks in Monteforte City in just three days. By then, my father would undoubtedly deploy his army of wolves, sealin
