TO FIGURED IT OUT

If what the guys had said was true and I couldn’t trust Jaroth, then I needed to at least figure out why he had come here. He had to be here for a reason other than my father. But why? Why would he show up this late at night too?

Once I opened the back door, James glanced over Asher’s shoulder at me. I pushed through the guys, who would barely move an inch for me, and stared at my ex-boyfriend, who looked like he had rushed over here in a hurry.

“What’s up?”

“Don’t talk to him, Pretty Bird,” Asher snapped.

But we needed to figure out why he had come.

“I need to talk to you…alone,” James said. “It’s important.”

“Don’t believe anyone other than your mates,”a soft and distant female voice that wasn’t my own drifted through my head. My brows furrowed momentarily, an uneasy feeling building in the pit of my stomach.“They all want to use you for your power.”

I stared at the dirt and swallowed hard. The voice almost sounded like … Mom’s.

“You’re more powerful than them all. You’re the only o