Chapter 0032

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.”

but that made his expression 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 clue yet

planning to do

had reached a conclusion. “Have you ever considered

your wolf being taken weren’t

“What do you

exploited your sister with the implicit purpose of obtaining your

wolf had been strong, but to

and my power?

nodded. “Alright. I won’t share this information

I exhaled in relief.

guarantee for how long I’ll

returned. He’d hold this over my head then, for who

who knew what purpose.

and that knowledge brought me absolutely zero

investigate for yourself,” Julian said. “You might

can find out more truth, perhaps

words over in my mind, trying to decide if

Elva.

line, the child’s future

she might become the

as if he’d been talking about

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

Luna… maybe I could

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