Aria's/Lysara's POV

My mind swirled, a whirlpool of images coursing through at the same time, chaotic. Then suddenly, the images dulled to a single one.

I couldn't tell if it was a vision or a memory, but I was standing in a room, giggling and laughing excitedly with Alpha King Kael as he held me to his broad chest.

He was younger here, younger in the werewolf sense, actually. There wasn't much difference in his face here, except that his jaw was much more defined in a subtle V, which made ...