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Chapter Forty-Two
Veronica Black Dear readers, I hope you are enjoying the story so far. It looks like Luca is finally going to get what he has been wishing for. Lets hope reality lives up to his fantasy. Happy reading, and as always, thank you for your continued support. VB xx
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Mrs Crook’s POV I hadn’t intended to have to tell the entire story of how we all ended up in this situation again, but none the less, the entire tale comes gushing out of me, like the dam of thousands of years of silence has been broken. Eleven faces gawp at me in horror and astonishment, and I have barley even scratched the surface of the depravity that sparked their rebellion in the first place. Zaine, George, Luca, Abernathy and Torrin are marginally less taken aback by what I have to say, but still, it’s a lot to take in. By the time I have finished explaining how Sophia’s wolf is actually Alcmene, the mother of Heracles, who was conceived when Zeus came to her bed disguised as her husband, and that Zaine’s wolf is Alcmene’s husband, Amphitryon, there are a lot of puzzled faces in the room. It’s really not that difficult to understand once one realises Zeus was a pig. If he saw a woman he wanted he took her, by force or deception, he saw it as his divine right. Perseus, Thomas’
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Sophia’s POVMrs Crook has been there my whole life. If there is one person in the whole world that I know I can trust, it is her. When she made it clear that she wanted to speak to us without our wolves, or companions, or whatever we are calling them now, I didn’t even think twice before putting up a wall in my mind.The soul inside me, Alcmene, has many secrets. I can feel it in the way she speaks to me and how she fidgets inside my mind. I’m not sure what to make of all this, and by the looks of it, I’m not the only one.Zaine wants the wolf he was always meant to have, I can feel his sense of loss and it is hurting him deeply. I feel the same, but to a lesser degree I suppose, after all I have had my intruder for only a couple of weeks. Zaine has been without the wolf that was meant for him for thirteen years.Some of these other men have had ancient souls living inside them for decades. I have no idea what effect that would have, but knowing what little I do about these men, I wo
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