chapter 72

Valen Three hours earlier My thoughts are all over the place as soon as I wake up. Everly is still asleep beside me, but I don't want to wake her. Rolling over, I spot the letter from my mother. The storage shed was a real eye-opener for me about the struggles she faced. My father, growing up, had never once said a bad word about her, only that she was Omega and he loved her. He never mentioned she refused to conform to our way of life; he never told me she was one of the original rogues from whom this land was taken. I rummage through the storage locker for hours. This entire city belonged to her family. In search of a better future for their daughter, my grandparents sold pieces of it off, selling it to the different packs that now reside here under the pretense that it would create a better future for my mother. Only, it did the opposite, and they were thrust into the middle of a turf war—the very turf they owned, land that was once theirs, only to be turned into what it is today. T