Aria's POV
I left days later at first light, the Grayson territory falling away behind me as I crossed into my mother's family lands.
I had spent days trying to understand what was happening to me. One moment, my power was under control. The next, it surged through my veins without warning, making my wolf feel as though she was fighting to break free.
The head of my mother's family was waiting for me inside the ancestral hall. He gestured toward the chair opposite him.
"Sit, Aria."
I obeyed. For the next several minutes, I told him everything. The sudden fluctuations in my power, the pressure in my chest, the moments when Lydia became unusually aggressive, the strange sensations I'd experienced whenever I approached the altar.
And, finally, I told him about Viktor and how I suspected
