Kestrel's POV
I'm scared and shaking so badly I can barely stand. Tears burn my eyes, threatening to spill over as I stare at Sophia's smug face. She just exposed my biggest secret, the one thing that could destroy everything I have with Zeph, with this pack, with this family. My demon wolf. The monster inside me that everyone will fear and hate once they know the truth.
"You're a demon wolf," Sophia repeats, louder this time, making sure everyone can hear. "An abomination. A creature that shouldn't exist. And you think you can just waltz in here and become our Luna? You think they'll accept you once they know what you really are?"
My wolf is howling in my mind, panicking, telling me to run, to shift, to fight. But I'm frozen, unable to move, unable to speak, unable to do anything but s
