The Werewolf's Bride
Scrawled in her mother’s neat hand:
If you read this, my daughter, then the veil has lifted. Your father was not the man I married. He was Blackthorn, exiled for loving a human. He left us both to protect us. The blood runs in you. When the moon calls, answer carefully. The bond will find you. Let it. But trust only the one whose eyes match mine.
Elara’s breath caught.
“Blackthorn,” she whispered. “He was pack.”
Kael took the note gently, read it once, twice. His expression shifted, shock, then something deeper. Recognition.