TRUTHS LAID BARE

POV: Ivory Wells

With the weight of long-buried secrets and lies descending on me from all sides, the musty air of the safe home seemed stifling. Emotions a whirl of wrath, grief, and frustration, I moved the little area like a trapped animal.

Darrel drove everything from the middle. My old friend. Onetime Alpha, the guy I had trusted with my life, my love, my everything only to have unimaginable treachery destroy all.

I had stayed away from really facing him about that terrible night for years. The evening when a basic misinterpretation turned into violence that sent our daughter to the winds and drove me from the pack. I felt it lancing across my soul, even now, a physical anguish.

but no more. Now that Darcy had been recovered and pulled from the grasp of that monster Callum against all odds I would not allow half-truths and meaningless platitudes. Once and for once, I wanted to know exactly how Darrel helped to plan the events that destroyed our family.

The others turned away as I