Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Tori’s POV:
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I hung up the phone, my grandmother’s words echoing in my head.
“What happened four years ago wasn’t your fault p>
Even though she’d always stood by me, believed in me when no one else would, I couldn’t let it go.
How could I? That night had changed everything.
I’d spent four years in Silver Fang trying to lock those memories away, to build walls around them so high and thick that they couldn’t touch
me anymore.
But they always found a way through, seeping into my dreams, where my brother Ryan’s eyes still gazed at me as the light faded from them. Where Noah’s blood still stained my hands.
And it wasn’t just the memories-their families were real, living reminders of that night.
Lisa Morris’s vengeful glares burned into me whenever our paths crossed. My aunt Janet-Ryan’s mother-refused to see me anymore, her grief transforming our family bond into something unrecognizable.
She’d already lost so much. My uncle, her husband, died in a car accident shortly after she gave birth to my little cousin Anna. Then Ryan died trying to protect me.
Janet nearly lost her will to live after that night; the neighbors told me she wouldn’t eat, wouldn’t sleep, just sat staring at Ryan’s photos for days. Only Anna’s cries from her crib had pulled Janet back from the edge of despair, giving her a reason to keep going.
But she made it clear through others that she never wanted to see me again. The girl who had cost her son his life. The girl who had once been like a daughter to her.
I understood. How could I not?
I’d destroyed the only real family I’d ever known. Janet, Anna, Ryan-they had loved me unconditionally, had given me everything Hannah never did. And I’d repaid that love with blood and grief.
In Silver Fang, I could almost pretend the outside world didn’t exist, but here in Moonhaven, my past shadowed me like a second skin.
Sinking onto my bed, I pulled my knees to my chest.
The dormitory was quiet this time of night, with most students already asleep. Tracy, my wolf, whined softly within me, sensing my distress as memories 1 d tried so hard to suppress came rushing back.
Four years ago. A full moon night. The night of my first shift.
I’d been terrified. At seventeen, I was late for my first transformation-m wolves shifted at fifteen or sixteen.
Being an Omega already made me an outcast, and the delayed shift only added to my abnormality
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Chapter 25
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When I felt the first symptoms-heightened senses, burning skin, the restlessness that came with the approaching moon-I panicked and called
the one person I thought I could trust.
“Fiona,” I whispered now, the name still bitter on my tongue.
My best friend. The girl who’d promised to help me through my first shift, who’d offered the address of a secluded villa as a safe place.
“Come alone,” she’d said. “I’ll have everything ready p>
My heart was full of trust and relief that Fiona would help me through this terrifying first transformation.
When I arrived, the lights were on inside, just as she promised they would be.
Full of hope, I pushed the door open. But the moment the door swung wide, I froze in the doorway, my body going rigid with shock.
Instead of Fiona, Noah Morris stood there, his lips curled in a predatory smile that had nothing to do with his wolf. Behind him, I glimpsed
several other young men lounging on sofas, bottles of alcohol scattered across tables.
“Well, well. The little Omega finally arrived,” Noah had drawled, his eyes king over me in a way that made my skin crawl. “We’ve been
waiting p>
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