Lizzie/Raquel E Posada
My father burned the evidence before he asked whether I was innocent.
For seven years, I maintained the magical wards protecting my family’s pack. To them, it was the least their wolfless daughter could do.
Then my beloved younger sister broke the rules, and a young guard died bringing her home.
I had proof of what happened. My father destroyed it. My mother begged me to confess to keep the peace. My brother promised forgiveness—if I stopped embarrassing the family.
Instead, I refused.
Banished before the entire pack, I laid my wardkeeper’s keys at my father’s feet.
“Appoint someone else before sunset.”
My brother laughed.
Three nights later, something crossed their boundary.
By then, I had found work in Blackthorn, where Alpha Rowan Ashford valued the skills my family mocked. For the first time, I had wages of my own, a door I could lock, and a future nobody else controlled.
But freedom brought questions. About the medicine I had taken for years. About the wolf that never awakened. About everything my family needed me never to discover.
Now their wards are failing, their secrets are unraveling, and they want their daughter back.
They expect me to save them.
I’m finally learning how to save myself.
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