☽ Luke ☾ I was watching Cain like a hawk. I had hit a nerve and I wasn’t going to stop until I had the secret out in the open. “What are you hiding?” I asked him again. To say he looked nervous was an understatement. “Luke,” Theo warned but Cain surprised us all by putting up his hand. “No, it’s alright. Now that you are aware of our kind living here it won't help to keep any secrets. I don’t know if you know that Mitch is next in line?” he looked at each of us and it was Zion that nodded. “Right, well, what I am hiding,” he looked pointedly at me. “Is the fact that I could banish and disown him. That would mean he would have to leave. No other Pride will accept him into their territory, and he would end up dying,” he said. I could tell it wasn’t easy for him to say this, but I didn’t

