Astrid

Halfbreed.

The word cut straight through me.

I hadn’t been called that since I left the pack. The word had always hurt, but back then, I was used to it. Now, it struck a raw nerve.

I had never heard Solomon say anything like that about me. He’d called me a pain and talked about how inconvenient it was to have me around all the time as a kid, but I had never heard him outright insult me like this. Had he said things like that to my ...