Lina's POV
My entire body went rigid. What was Adrian trying to say?
How could he have possibly known me before Jasper?
My mother had been best friends with Luna Elena. Jasper and I had known each other since childhood.
We were true childhood sweethearts.
I bit my lip, pain lancing through me. "You're lying to me again, Adrian."
Adrian slowly took my hand, his thumb brushing across my knuckles with maddening tenderness. "I'm not lying. Do you remember when I told you I was sent to the countryside near Connecticut as a child?"
My heart clenched painfully.
How could I forget?
A renowned spiritual elder had declared his fate—a lone wolf destined to bring misfortune to those around him before his fifteenth year.
The boy who should have been raised as the treasur
