Chapter 66

Everyone stared at Matthew, too stunned to properly register what he had said. What was he saying? What could he possibly know? He was nearly the same age as Beth and Daniel, which meant he would also have been far too young to remember anything of what had happened with the Heether pack and the minor village.

And Beth might have thought he was preparing to lie to fool the prisoner, if not for what she already knew, if not for the dark, knowing look in Matthew's eyes as she watched him.

When their eyes met over the prisoner's head, that was when she knew. It made no sense and made perfect sense at the same time, but Moon Goddess! was she imagining it?

No.

It was real.

Matthew knew.

He cleared his throat, and she forced the bile rising in her throat back down. She could sort this out in her head later. Right now, that stupid, stupid man needed to get out what he was about to say, while not giving away the truth.

Because now, Beth knew he was like her.

He wasn't the Matt from the past,