#Chapter 108: Life Balance

Chris For a moment, it felt as if my blood had run cold and all of the air had been sucked out of the room. I blinked almost dazedly at the reporter from across the audience, trying to wrap my head around how the hell he knew about the moonstone. No one should have known. We had taken the utmost precautions to keep the missing moonstone a secret. Not even the members of our pack knew—just me, Ava, Leonard, and the Elders. That was it. And yet, it seemed as though I was mistaken. Somehow, someone here in the human world had found out. And now the audience was practically bristling as all eyes turned to me, watching and waiting for a response. “I…” My throat worked uselessly, my mouth opening and closing like a fish out of water as words failed me. I never had issues with public speaking—if anything, I quite enjoyed it—but this was unexpected. But then I saw her: Ava. She was sitting in the front row, those beautiful eyes of hers trained on me. W