Chapter 21 1/6 AURORA Dane lifted a hand and carefully traced the place three pages had been torn from the book .

The surrounding pages were splotched with an old , rust colored liquid .

Blood .

I had flipped through this book hundreds of times , trying to figure that out myself .

But I thought I knew .

The Reeds gave me this book because they said it was full of old scribbles .

They didnt think it was important .

I dont remember much about when they gave it to me because I was young .

That was only part of the reason .

So much of my life before marrying Dane was lost to me .

But I think I remember Esther Reed saying she tore them out .

Now I touched the torn places .

The book had been written hundreds of years ago .

Someone might have been able to translate it , if it was written in a language .

Instead , it was written in a code made of strange symbols .

As I got older , I discovered the symbols were revealing themselves to me .

Its an old gift that runs in our pack , my grandmother says a gift of magical interpretation .

From what Ive been able to read , the pages beforehand describe the setup for a ceremony .

The pages are the ceremony , itself .

Chapter 21 A ceremony ? Dane asked .

I nodded .

The ceremony is to reveal the moon goddesss chosen .

2/6 Why would Esther Reed take these pages if she couldnt read the book and didnt know how important they are ? Dane asked .

I dont know .

I spent almost twenty two years thinking I was their biological daughter .

Everything they ever told me was a lie .

Except that I couldnt trust the Montagues .

I did remember them saying that .

Over and over again .

Then they made me Danes wife and tried to control him through me .

But hed won , in the end .

in the deepest parts of the

freed him from me

you think she kept them ?

, looking over my shoulder

easy to lay my head on his shoulder and

me still wanted so badly to do

laughed without humor

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

been a hoarder

his

one he made

house is on

I remembered .

a year after our 3/6 Chapter 21

win that turned the tide

went to the Council asking to end our marriage , and the first time the Council had forbidden

? I asked , dread rising in the pit of my

back to the place Id been raised since they poisoned me with silver and left me for Dane

intended to go

saying we need to search the house

snapped the book

We dont .

guide us

we need

ceremony in

I hesitated .

I hadnt had a civil conversation

It was strange .

I felt

undo the magical locks that

we can figure

, we could if my grandmother was right , and the prophecy on the first page of the book talk

known her , shed never

there was no need

But Dane shook his

knows a little about

, you do everything required ,

go into the Reed pack

at his

No we dont .

the rage and threat hed

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

me there the day after

the

night I met Dane

Everything hurt .

were

through the forest

, my wolf had curled up into a tiny corner of my mind , whimpering

all right , I

Please hang on .

the dream , my childhood was no more than a dark shadow , but I knew

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