Chapter 20 Blood Doesn't Lie

• Dr. Bellamy stared at the screen displaying results he'd verified three times already. 99.7% maternal match to Eden. The numbers didn't lie, and neither did the secondary markers—lunar regenerative properties, hybrid resistance factors, and magic-bound proteins threading through every cell sample. Bobby wasn't just Eden's daughter. She carried bloodlines that predated modern pack structures and ancient magic that most wolves had forgotten existed.
• His fingers trembled as he scrolled through the data again. "Impossible," he whispered, though the evidence blazed before him in clinical detail.
• A memory surfaced unbidden—Bobby chained in the dungeon days ago, blood trickling from fresh wounds, her eyes defiant despite the silver burning her wrists. She hadn't cried out once during the interrogation. Most wolves would have been begging by then.