(Xavier’s POV) I walked around the pack house, aimlessly. I had no idea where I was headed, no idea what was going through my head or why I felt so betrayed by how my mother acted in my father’s office. Was she really trying to protect whoever the council was threatening, or did she think Xeraphina was slipping through her grasp? I heard the prophecy from the sister, how one twin would be stronger than the other and their balance together would save the world from the evil lurking behind the shadows. I also remembered that if the stronger twin was treated unfairly, differently, trained wrong, her loyalty would step out of bounds, crossing over to evil. Xeraphina would never do that, not as long as I was by her side. ‘We are by her side. She would never betray us like that and if mot

