Avery’s Point Of View
My breath caught. A memory flashed… The vision… The pain… The wolf… The word that had left my lips. Mate. I gasped.
And the voice finally spoke the words that shattered my reality.
‘I am your wolf, Avery.’
‘I’m Lynexia.’ The room spun. I staggered back, my breath hitching, my hands trembling.
My wolf?
No. No, that was impossible. I had never… I never shifted. I had lived my entire life believing I was nothing.
But this… This wasn’t normal. I could hear her… Feel her. Like a second heartbeat inside of me. A part of me. My head spun, the walls around me seeming to close in.
"You’re lying," I rasped, shaking my head violently. "This can’t be true—this can’t—"
‘It is true,’ Lynexia cut me off. Her voice was calm, but there was something beneath it… something ancient. Something powerful.
‘You are not just human, Avery.’
I clenched my fists, trying to breathe. Trying to think. Trying to understand. But it was too much. Too damn much. "You’re wrong," I whispered. "You h
