LILITH'S POV

A few moments earlier…

I felt my entire world crumbled around me. I had the hunch but I didn't actually think that it'd be right.

The man who's ruled my pack my entire life, who I've been taught to respect and fear and obey, the man who was the father of the person I loved more than anything this world had to offer—he murdered my parents.

He hunted them down when they tried to protect me, slaughtered them, and then made sure I'd spend my whole life believing that something ...