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 .

the shadows in the deepest parts of

from me ,

she kept

close , looking over my

been easy to lay my head

, I hated that part of me still wanted

laughed without humor

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

been a

rubbed his chin

gesture one he made

pack house is

I remembered .

out in a raid a year after

turned the tide of the pack

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

saying ? I asked , dread rising in the pit of my

they poisoned me with

to go back

need to search

the

We dont .

book will guide us to the relics

we need

why is this ceremony in here ? he asked

I hesitated .

a civil conversation this

It was strange .

I felt about it

the magical locks that

believe we can figure it out

least , we could if my grandmother was right , and the prophecy on the first page

the few years Id known her

no need to find the chosen , there was no need for me to face my past and visit my abandoned childhood home

Dane shook his head

about messing with ancient magic

is certain , you do everything

Reed

at his

No we dont .

toward me suddenly , all the rage and threat hed been missing

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

me there the

the night my family killed my wolf

night I

Everything hurt .

were on

crawled through the forest

curled up into a tiny corner of my

,

Please hang on .

! Even in the dream , my childhood was no more than a dark shadow , but

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