A SECOND SECRET

When Dante heard Declan say a history about his origin, "what do you mean?" was the only thing he could come up with. As far as anything concerning his lineage, Alpha Hero made sure that Dante knew all. He even made him take all those boring classes about the history of all the wolves and the different packs. What more was he not informed about?

"There is one story that your father entrusted to only me."

"Which is?"

"The death of your mother."

Dante felt he had heard Declan wrongly. His father never talked about his mother for anything. Not even about their meeting and her death. It was one part of his life that was a crazy one.

"As you might not know, your father met your mother here, on this particular river, years back. That should be thirty-five years ago. Then, he was a loving, patriotic and down-to-earth wolf who most people took as a human. He had just arrived in Oklahoma to study according to the will of his father, your grandfather, Alpha Michael. Your grandfather was the rut