Chapter 39: The Baby's Breath Life Stone

"Did you have a hard time getting out of your restraints?" I whisper playfully to Thane, who sits beside me. He sideways glances at me, then puts a torn belt onto the table.

"Use something stronger next time," he winks. I chuckle as I turn to Sasha, who sits across from me. Atticus was already digging in, and so was everyone else, but my mind was on something else.

"So what else can you tell me about the Astra pack? They seemed to have a very different dynamic than most packs I've heard of," I said, then took a sip of red wine Atticus had poured me. 

Sasha twirls her fork in her spaghetti, "Well, they were very different. A pack with no Alpha seems quite strange to everyone, but that's how their dynamic worked. Females had a matriarchy, and ahead Luna, which I assume, was your mother. Venia."

"Huh, so that was my birth mother's name..." I say under my breath. 

"I remember her very well. She was strong and had a passionate heart. She also