Chapter55. The Past3

“It’s easier for Derik and Kai, they cut themselves off, put up a temporary wall that only drip feeds the pack our connection, but I can’t. Not with my shadows,” he admitted. I didn’t know how to help or what to say, so I snuggled up next to him, ignoring the pressing on my bladder and kissing his pec. He held me under his arm, our bodies naked and leaning on the door as he sighed deeply. “Why do you have the shadows and they don’t?” I asked. It had been niggling at me for so long. I held my breath for the answer, but he tensed and I knew it was something he didn’t want to talk about. “I was winter born,” he finally admitted, and I gasped, sitting up and staring at him. “But you’re not human?” I asked, confused as hell. “Not anymore. I was. My parents were both wolves, my line pure, and yet when everyone started turning at puberty, I didn’t. My parents hid it, didn’t say anything. Then they took me to Tabitha, and she found the shadows in me. They had burned through my wolf gene,” he s