The fact was, for whatever the reason, he hadn’t revealed my secret yet. If I played his game, maybe he’d

continue to keep it.

I pressed my hand to his elbow and nudged him closer to the door, further from Elva. I didn’t want her to know the truth yet. We’d have our own conversation in time, when she was old enough to understand.

voice low, just in case, I confessed, “Elva isn’t mine.”

Julian’s perfect veneer finally cracked. His eyes widened for a few solid seconds before he recovered

himself. “Really?”

“She’s the daughter of my twin sister,” I said. The memories burned through my brain, painful and hot.”

sold my wolf to pay off Elva’s ransom.”

“She was being held for ransom?”

“My sister owed too much to so many people. They’d taken Elva as payment. They only gave me so

many days… I did what I had to do.”

no more readable. I could practically see the cogs turning in his brain as he sorted through this new information, but I hadn’t a

planning to do

had reached a conclusion. “Have

and your wolf being taken weren’t mere

“What do

with the implicit purpose of

silence once more. My wolf had been strong, but to purposefully target my

and my power?

I

I exhaled in relief.

can’t guarantee for how long

hold this over my head then,

who knew what purpose.

Julian, and that knowledge brought me

Julian said. “You might find there

find out more truth, perhaps it

mind, trying to decide if they

Elva.

of your family line, the child’s future

like yours were, she

said the words so casually, as if he’d

was, I wouldn’t be able to protect Elva if those same people from the underground came for her,

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