Chapter 8

• Blaise hadn’t known she’d decided to tell him until the words were coming out of her mouth. “They’re pretty sure they know what clan your mother was from—if her name was really Ballard.”
• He froze. Didn’t move at all, she wasn’t sure if he was still breathing. “They do? You, ah,” he motioned to the door of Raymond’s other room. “You found that out just then?”
• “Yeah. Do you want to know?” He may be part Tomas, but for the part of him that was a shifter, she wanted him to know. She knew what it was like to wonder what was inside you. To not know all the pieces of yourself was a very heavy thing to carry.