THE PORTAL

KATRINA

Saying goodbye was the hardest thing. We weren’t taking much with us so we could reach Alpha Hades’ pack at the earliest. It was hard to explain to the kids that we were leaving, especially without Carissa since she was always with us.

Carissa was more than an aunt to them. She was their second mother. One day they almost asked if we were lesbian mothers. That had to be the funniest thing I’d heard. I wished we could stay longer but we had to leave this very morning.

Ian was out searching for me and I couldn’t risk an extra second. Once the kids were done preparing and eating… I explained what was happening. They were very confused and I deduced they knew it was because of yesterday’s incident.

“Is it because of that bad guy, mummy?”

I almost broke down at how sad the three became. For more than five years, I’ve been hiding the truth from them. I was a wolfant—a forbidden wolf. A wolf that shouldn’t be alive and they were the children of Lycans.

Not just any Lycans, royal Lycan