Raven’s POV The photo trembled between my fingers.My mother stared back at me, younger than I ever knew her, eyes bright and fearless. The same eyes I saw in the mirror every morning. The same mouth and the same tilt of the head when she was about to say something.Eli knelt in front of me on the cold lab floor, face pale, he was patiently waiting for me to speak or scream or run. I could not do any of those things. My throat had closed up tight.“This cannot be real,” I finally whispered.Eli’s voice shook. “I thought the same thing for days. I kept going back to the old records. Same birth date. Same pack symbol tattooed on her shoulder in the corner of another picture. It is her, Raven. Your mom ran from the same pack my mom did.”“Then why do they look alike? Or is there a mix up?” I said. I dropped the photo and it fluttered to the floor between us.My mom never talked about her past. Gossip said she showed up in our town one day, pregnant with me, no ring, no family, no exp
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