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MAYA

My step father ask me to sit down at the table with him and from the very moment I walked into the room, from the moment I had that heavy feeling in my stomach, I knew something had happened.

I never wanted my mother to go for this mission. She has never been used to combat, she was a Luna for crying out loud. But she has always refused to listen to me.

It's the need to prove to Alpha Lance, and her new husband that she is more than a pretty face.

She went on a mission, and now she has not returned.

I grip a handful of my cardigan under the table holding my breath and waiting for David to finally look me in the eyes with an answer.

“Is my mother missing?” I blurt. “Is she… dead?”

“No, Maya.” David and Ethan say at the same time.

“Your mother is very much alive and I well, monkey, she is just not here like right now.” Ethan says.

Unlike now, his words used to be very reassuring to me, but not today. Not worth that hollow look in his eyes.

“You are lying!” I scream in Da