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"I suppose it is"

"Do you knohy I left Callum’s compound in the first place?"

"I don’t He said you became difficult after you were Awakened, and not in the typical teenage ways"

"It was polite of him to put it that way"

"Hoould you put it?"

"I blew things up every full enia wrapped up several sprigs of lavender "You know most olf teens are Awakened when they’re thirteen, obviously Do you knohat age hereditary witches come into their power?"

"I’ll hazard a guess and say thirteen?"

"Bingo"

"So you were turned into a olf and had ic powers spark to life at the saood olf Ben was a natural--he took to the change right away, he showed alpha tendencies early on, he was so good at it I wanted to be half as good as he was The problehtens a witch’s powers So when I shifted, e the shift at the saic lashed out, violently"

"And stuff blew up"

"Yep There were about twice astheht it was a coincidence After the third full moon and the third flattened cabin, I kneas my fault"

"So you left"

"So I left"

"How did you know to co to the witch who had done an excellent job of ignoring us up until now

"I didn’t She found ic even when I’m not in control of my human form I can’t cast spells in wolf fors up anymore"

"Does Callum know you’re a witch?"

"If he didn’t at the ti with her"

For the first tirave;re reacted She snorted thenIt sounded French, but it wasn’t Canadian French or Cajun French, so I was screhen it caenia--on the other hand--chuckled "She says ‘Even the most obvious answers sometimes do not bite a foolish man in the ass’"

Oh yeah We were related

"I won’t force you to co, Secret, but I have the witch on rave;re clucked her tongue and waved her canea visual eleirl for wielding grandnored her and plowed ahead "If I come with you, it will be up to you to explain to Callu I’ve been out of the pack a long ti a lone wolf has screwed ic did"

"I’ll try to ed the topic Drastically "What’s she like? Our mom"

"How much did Callum tell you about Mercy before you left?"

"That she was coured I was a lot like her" Her faint s like Mercy You have a soul"

That knocked Eugenia on her proverbial ass Her expression was that of a child learning Santa Claus wasn’t real I felt like shit for being the one to kill her fantasy of who Mercy was But if she everto be a touching family reunion Mostly because the next time I saw Mercy I would rip out her intestines and wear the

What can I say? Bitch not only tried to kill me, butthe story too enia, Mercy isn’t complicated She’s very siot it into her head his death was somehow my fault and abandoned o bat-shit crazy Since then, she continues to bla she’s lost She tried to kill me"

"She…you mean metaphorically?"

"No, I mean she shifted her hand into a claw andthe meat off my face That was after she held a bullet between enia’s mouth formed an O shape, her eyes wide and a little wet