Chapter 194

“All I remembered before that was being asleep in that room and then waking up in a new place with other kids in the orphanage. There was nothing in between, and now I know why. He must have taken me there, and I forgot it all when I slept. They told me the Munro family was gone, but I never really understood what they meant by that. Not until later, when I was told the vampires came. Just a kid, and then they told me my family was dead, and I never stopped to question anything beyond that.” My voice cracks and my throat is aching with the effort as it drives home that now, I fully understand they were killed because of my mother’s and my gifts. All of them! My mother, family, Munros, and the whole pack died because of us and what we are. The vampires were never the monsters in our midst. We were. The wolves and those of us who would slaughter women and children in the name of power. We created wars to cover our sins and let hatred rage for centuries without learning from our mistakes