Lily stared at the woman now standing rigid near the back of the hall, searching desperately for some family resemblance she might have missed, some clue that this stranger shared blood with the mother Lily thought she'd known completely until roughly ten minutes ago.
"I have an aunt," Lily said slowly, disbelief coloring every word. "My mother never mentioned a sister. Not once, in eighteen years."
"She doesn't remember me," Elena said, and something in her voice cracked, grief bleeding through the fury. "The same suppression that erased her pack memories erased me from her life entirely. As far as Susan knows, she's an only child. That's the price I paid for staying loyal to this council after she chose exile with Daniel instead of staying to fight for what was rightfully hers."
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