Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

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Chapter 511

I snorted. “You got me there.” I drank more wine. “But it did get us more information. It unveiled the Brotherhood, and it got me out of there.”

He nodded once. “But now you hate me.” He scratched at the grain on the table. “And I don’t know how I am supposed to recover from that.”

“You lied to me.”

He blew out a breath. “I did…but in my defence. I didn’t think I was ”

I snorted. “How do you fucking figure?”

He raised his hands. “I wrote you a letter every week to cover some of the miscommunication. But I also thought your dad was telling you all of his plans. And I say his plans because I was following his lead. He was able to move in the shadows, while pretending to be dead, and I was stuck in the limelight.”

“So you were playing your part thinking that I was too, only to find out afterwards that I wasn’t.” I slumped.

life that I have to be careful. That I have to keep myself hidden. So when I am

“Why?”

I thought I was the last Lycan. My kind were hunted down, my father was killed, and I was raised by backstabbing assholes.” His phone rang, but he silenced it. “But even before my world fell apart, it was the same. I am a Lycan male. I have to hide my scent or I will drive females crazy.” I rolled my eyes, which made his lips twitched. “You can roll your eyes. But until you have seen an unmated

I

scent in a pack. Thankfully, it was a small pack because there

onto the table, ensnared

his mate. One plucked out her eyes. The rest had to

“Holy.”

actually snuck back to America. And when the man and his mate were rushing to the pack doctor to deliver their first pup, they were hit by her car.

my head in my hand.

breath. “That’s why I always held myself back from you. I have scented you, and I knew you weren’t my mate.” He met my eyes. “I prayed to the goddess that I was wrong.” He shook his head. “It was silly, but true.” He groaned as he sat back. “I’ll never be able to let myself be free around you. Never

words hit

have spent these last few years, getting close to you as Thoth, and I know that was a cruel thing to do. But I had no other way to talk to you. Your

“Rowan.”