#Chapter 131 Maternal Warnings

Violet’s POV For the first time in my life, I’m frozen in fear. I’ve always been adaptable, an expert even in navigating change. It’s a part of life no one can avoid, so I learned very young that the quickest path forward was to accept change. In the werewolf world, dwelling on the reality before a change, wishing things were how they used to be, could cost you your life. But I was starting to realize I had only ever expected change for my future – not my past. Finding out that Lucas had been lying to me our entire relationship, that he had already found a mate bond with Nora, was so much harder to accept than the fact that he was cheating on me. Even through the pain of receiving the mark of the unwanted, I knew there was only one path forward. But finding out in that courtroom that our past was not what I had believed had left me fumbling for my own thoughts. The past few weeks had been more of the same. Meeting Eva, returning to Darkmoon without Theo, finding out I was