Selena’s POV
“What do you mean?” he asked, c*****g his head to the side the way he always did when there was something he didn’t understand. Which wasn’t all that often, so it was sort of comical to see…
At least it offered a small reprieve for what I had to tell him next.
“You know that my father lost his mate – my mother – right?” I asked, and he nodded, as this was common knowledge in werewolf circles. I took a deep breath, finally revealing the secret that I’d been carrying for all this time – solely and so utterly alone: “What most people don’t know is that he murdered my mother.”
“And he did it right in front of me!”
I’d never said it out loud before. And to be honest, I didn’t expect it to feel so--- heavy! As if I were being pressured from the inside out, my heart was being cr
