12. ETERNAL FLAMES

MELIA POV

Spending a night with Roxy cleared my head. I had to go home to face my mother at some point or she would hunt me down and drag me home.

But what exactly was I to say to her?

I couldn’t believe she would hide something like that from us.

I get what she did was forbidden, but to bind our wolves so that she could keep us in the dark just pissed me off.

She was the one that chose to do things that she knew were wrong and I could even forgive her for that, but to wait until we were eighteen then and say "Oh, yeah, by the way, you're a werewolf and you have to be Luna to some strange man's pack" that was supposedly our biological father was just so messed up on a dozen different levels.

I could always run away or refuse to do any of what they are asking.

I wasn't exactly sure what the consequences of that would be, but I am now an adult and I refuse to let anyone make any more decisions for me!

I sighed and let out a breath I hadn't even realized I was holding.

On the other hand,