{Casper's POV}

The trees blur past me as I run.

Faster. Faster still. Away from her. From that tent and everything I thought I understood.

I felt the wind whipping my face, but it couldn’t cut deeper than the truth she just dropped on me. My feet pound the forest floor, bare and bruised. But I didn't care. The pain is grounding.

She kept it from me all these years. I was just a secret, a reminder of her shame. Of the man who rejected her, Alpha Aurelius.

“Why is she so ...