Taryn
My heart was already hammering by the time Heidi dropped her papers onto the coffee table. Caz and I hovered beside the couch, both of us tense and silent as she flipped through her notes with shaking fingers.
“I’ve been digging through the archives,” she began, breathless. “Through old scrolls, digital libraries—everything I could get my hands on. I found something, Taryn. A case from centuries ago. A wolf shifter… touched by Helios.”
The name made my skin prickle. “Helios. So Dean wasn't lying. Selene has a brother.”
Heidi nodded. “The Sun God. Her opposite in almost every way. He’s not… evil. But he is wrathful. He thrives on rage, on justice twisted into something darker. He doesn’t just bless people, Taryn. He infects them.”
I sank onto the couch beside the notes, feeling t
