Chapter 159

Edwin

Audrey trained relentlessly over the following weeks.

Ever since it truly hit us that she was the Silver Star, she'd been filled with a new sense of determination that I couldn't even begin to put into words. Her days would be stuffed to the brim with classes and the six work and studying and fashion projects, and then her evenings would turn into a veritable battlefeld of sweat and labor.

Each night, no matter how much I tried to tell her that she could rest and relax, she insisted on training.

"Thave to hone my senses, she would insist. "Tran't explain it, but.. It feels like there's this thing inside of me. A great power And I have to learn to control it. To stop Coldclaw

There was no use in arguing with her. She was more determined now than she had even been working on two fashion shows. More determined than I had ever seen anyone.

But sometimes she went too far. Some nights, she would push herself so hard that she would pass out asleep on the couch before I could even bring her dinner, and I would have to carry her to bed. And then sometimes it was way too far. Sometimes, I think she came close to the edge of breaking herself in some unseen way. For good

We had been practicing her ability to slip into my mind that night. She had made her way into my consciousness to find a particular memory that I would try to keep hidden from her, locking it away behind thick stone walls,

The memory itself was innocuous enough-simply a childhood memory of playing on the playground with my sister. But I kept dodging her, trying to see if she could still navigate my mind when I didn't want her rooting around in there.

When her nose had started to bleed, however, I couldn't bear it anymore.

"Audrey, stop!" I said, shaking her gently. "Your nose is bleeding"

She blinked, coming back to herself as if she had been a very, very long way away. "Oh," she said breathily, touching her nose with a trembling hand. "I. I didn't even notice."

I handed her a tissue. "We're done for the night."

Her eyes flashed silver. "I'm fine-*

"No, you're not. You need to rest, too, you

know."

"But Coldclaw-

my mate turn her brain to

grumbled and stormed off, locking herself in the bathroom to clean up. I

My Silver Star.

weeks ago, when I held her that night she had accidentally slipped into Fiona's memories, my wolf had smelled it on her. "Silver Star,"

that Fiona was the Silver Star. I didn't know why or how

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the confusion surrounding Fiona's obsession with marrying me. With becoming my mate. fated or

it wasn't simple attraction or love

sought-after. A pack with someone as powerful as

no wonder they wanted to combine Coldclaw and my pack. Crescent Moon. These things combined together would make Coldclaw unstoppable. But Fiona wasn't the Silver Star, and apparently they didn't know that it was actually Audrey. This was a good thing. We would have to keep Audrey's true nature a secret, at least for now, until we

to use her abilities as Silver Star, how to control them, because her power would grow immeasurably once she finally

wasn't about to let her

me a file folder. It seemed a little pointless now that we knew for certain what she was, but I did still

her suspected age, her birthday, her appearance when she was found... That sort of

close. Just three days apart, to be exact. Likely a coincidence, but I couldn't help but think back to that book we'd found in the library. The one that detailed a

her first adoptive mother?" I

me the paper. "Meredith was actually one of the employees there. But she died when Audrey was around ten and left next

a little

pocket. He pulled out a small

a faded picture of a beautiful werewolf woman holding a toddler Audrey. Meredith, sporting

to look through Meredith's old office at the orphanage and found

Audrey like that, so adorable and happy, those round little cheeks and big blue eyes and that shocking

abuse in her next home. I pocketed it, planning to give it to her later. Surely she'd be thrilled to see it. There's more," Charles said. "The orphanage agreed to blacklist

"What is it?"

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orphanage has fallen deeply into disrepair since Audrey was there as a kid. The new headmistress is

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