*Kael*

“So,” Gemma said lightly as she wrapped clean gauze around my shoulder. “Your cousin.”

More truths she deserved. “My mother’s cousin, so technically, he is my second cousin. Really, I had no idea they escaped the raid, much less survived.” It was a grim statement, one that I believed to be true for the last twelve years. “I even forgot that he was the Alpha. My mother’s side of the family is—or was, I’m not sure—pretty large. ...