Blood stained my shirt. My hands. My skin. It didn’t matter that the wounds on my side had already begun to heal. The stains remained, a reminder of the chaos I’d just dragged us out of. I couldn’t let Raina or the little girl see me like that. So I washed it off, scrubbing harder than I needed to, as if the water could erase the questions running through my head. When we finally arrived at the lake house, the silence weighed heavier than the night itself. The house was my escape—my most private space, far from the noise of the packs, far from Selene. No one but me ever came here. But tonight… it wasn’t just me. I stood outside their room, guarding the door, every nerve awake. My mind wouldn’t stop spinning. Who was this little girl? Why did she carry my mark—the same crescent that’s been etched into my chest since birth? And what the hell did Selene have to do with this? Was I losing my mind? Or worse… had I been played all along? My wolf prowled inside me, restless, demanding
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