Claimed by my Sister's Fiancé
"Deaths get faked all the time, Alpha Voss, especially by people with money and motive to disappear cleanly."
I looked between them. "Who is Selene Voss."
Kian's jaw worked once before he answered, and I watched something old and unhealed cross his face.
"My mother," he said.
The room went very quiet.
"She left when I was twelve," he went on, voice flat with the effort of keeping it that way. "Abandoned my father, abandoned the pack, ran off with a rogue from the north. Everyone assumed she died somewhere out there, unprotected, years later. There was never a body. Just silence, and eventually people stopped asking."