"Severin, this is Raine. I swear to you on my faith. The woman lying in the ICU at Whitecross General, the one fighting for her life right now, is your birth mother. She is Nora, the Chief of the Bonehowl Pack. Will you come to the hospital and see her?"
On the other end of the line, Severin laughed.
"Wow, Lydia. You really are something else. First you put on that week-long performance just to get your hands on the Bone-Kernel. Now you've actually managed to bribe Raine into playing along? The two of you are conspiring to curse my mother with some fake illness just to force my hand? You think I'm going to fall for that? My mother is the supreme leader of the Bonehowl Pack. She carries the purest bloodline of the wolf kings. Just a few days ago, she was full of strength and spirit. How c
