Lily
The air in the ballroom had grown heavy, thick with a kind of silence that pressed against my eardrums. My heart was thundering against my ribs as I looked down at my hands, the same hands I had looked at every day of my life, trying to reconcile the woman I thought I was with the woman Elder Elian had just described. Beta blood was one thing, but an Alpha’s daughter, too?
Such bloodlines were rare. To carry both lineages was a genetic anomaly, a convergence of power that should have made me a force of nature. Yet, as I stood there, I felt a flicker of the same old insecurity. If I were born of such strength, why had my wolf always felt so quiet? Why had I felt so small under Rowan’s thumb for so long?
Around me, the hall slowly came back to life.
Murmurs began to ripple through t
