Chapter 24

"Ella, let me explain."

Cain took a step towards me and I took two steps backwards. From the corner of my eye, I saw Jai reach out to place his hand on my shoulder.

"Don't touch me!" I said, backing away from them both. I looked at Jai.

"Are you one too?" I asked him.

"One what?" He asked.

I scoffed in disbelief. "Don't play me like an idiot," I told him firmly.

I looked to Cain, who had slowly been moving towards me. I backed away and went around the couch, putting more space between myself and the two men, if one could even call them that.

"I heard what your dad said," I told Cain.

Leaning down, I picked the book up off the couch and held it in one hand.

"You're a Lycanthrope," I said.

Saying it out loud made it all click inside my head

The whole bit about Cain telling me they were their own undercover organization; that had to be what the book referenced when it said that Lycans all lived together in secret.

And the sub-human strength the book talked about would explain why Cain wa