Gray’s POV

In the days after I returned from the coven, I buried myself in research. The library became my second home.

I pored over history books, clan records, and even the old texts I once dismissed as irrelevant. The more I read, the more unsettled I felt.

For years, I had blindly accepted what was handed down to me, prejudices against witches, suspicions of vampires, half-truths about every species that wasn’t our own.

I never questioned them but I went on to enforce them.

Now, after ...