"Asteria was the name of the witch I told you about before, Milena," Alpha Marcus told me. "The one who saved my mother and lived with us for a couple of months. She had that book when she came and left it to my mother as a parting gift. But we couldn't read it, so my mother asked why she was giving it to us. Asteria’s only reply was that 'soon someone who could read it would come.' And since then we have kept the book in our library."

I was genuinely speechless after Alpha Marcus ...