The conversation I overheard chilled me to the core.
“People will ask questions,” Ann said.
My dad’s whisper came “Nobody will suspect a thing. We'll make it look like a suicide. Once she signs over the hidden ownership of the pack, everything will be ours. We'll be rich. We can leave this town behind, disappear if we want.”
My stomach twisted. Sign over the pack? They planned to kill me and take everything I had.
“What about Mason?” Ann’s voice quivered slightly.
“We’ll deal with him later,” my dad replied “Let’s focus on completing the ritual first.”
I was frozen in place. Every word echoed in my mind like a death sentence. My body trembled uncontrollably, and my heart hammered in my chest. This can’t be real…
They had been so nice to me lately, but it was all a facade. They weren
