Mum’s mouth opens and closes like a fish out of water.But I’m not done yet.“When Jenna freed me, when I saw you, standing there in front of me, I hoped you’d be pleased to see me. But you weren’t, were you? You were disgusted and turned away from me.“You cast me out of your house faster than I could blink! Mum may have glamoured Zidiah into believing that I had always been here, along with my siblings. But I wish she’d glamoured you too so that just once I could hear you speak to me the way you do the others.”I’ve waited years to get this stuff off my chest. But I don’t feel any better for it; in fact, I feel worse. Worse because Orrin Dalgaard stands there looking at me as if I were a phantom. He will never regard me as his son; I know that now.

Goddess, the sickening feeling in my stomach, thinking that Lorcan could have gotten Gianna pregnant, wouldn’t go away. It wouldn’t because I knew once the baby was born, I’d see the proof marked on the child’s skull behind their ear.Figure 8 is the mark of rape, no one but a handful of people know how this came to be.Many years ago, my grandfather, a kind man, sought to punish those who would take what did not belong to them. My grandfather had many abilities, even the use of magic, gifted to him by a witch upon his fourteenth birthday.Having found his mate, my grandmother, he realised that she’d been raped mere days before meeting him. She was already pregnant and feared my grandfather wouldn’t want to mate with a pregnant rape victim. She was wrong, and they fell in love quickly.Before the

I press the antiseptic pad to the cut above Lorcan’s eye. I know I don’t need to; it will heal within the next few minutes. But I can’t seem to stop myself.I’m worried because he should have healed already. The fact he hasn’t healed tells me how severe those injuries are.I don’t even want to imagine what would have happened had Lorcan been human.‘He’d be dead; that’s what would have happened.’‘Thank you, Lyra!’I don’t want to hear it, so I cut her off.Seeing Lorcan’s wolf fighting those rogues, seeing the dozens upon dozens of wolves attacking him, something in me snapped. I was so scared that I’d lose him, and I could barely contain myself.Lo

“It’s not that. It’s… Well, are you still planning on rejecting me?”Goddess, I feel sick!I gasp.Lorcan just tore my t-shirt in half!My mouth hangs open.Lorcan lifts me by the waist, pushes his shorts down his legs, and slams his cock into my willing pussy.Both of us cry out.I feel so full!I move my hips, but Lorcan grabs them, stilling me. “Don’t move,”“But,”“No,” He cuts me off with a kiss to my lips.“I am never 

“It wasn’t your fault, Dad.”That was easier to say than I thought it would be.I breathe deeply through my nose.“I understand as a father; you feel responsible for what happened. I’ve thought many times about how things would have been different if we hadn’t saved Mum. The witch wouldn’t have wanted to punish you and Mum for whatever her reason was, and I would have been born alongside the others.”He looks me in the eye, and I realise that I need to get out what I’ve been holding in all these years.“But I wouldn’t change what we did because a world without my mother doesn’t bear thinking about.”Dad nods, and I take a deep breath.“We can’t think