Chapter 146

• My world tilted violently. A crushing force slammed into my chest, knocking the air from my lungs and ripping a pained growl from my throat. Hot, furious tears streaked down my cheeks, searing my skin, while my heart ached for the mother I had barely known. Yet through Oberon, I had learned that she had loved me, despite having no choice but to leave me. I had clung to the hope of seeing her again, of making things right, of freeing her from the grasp of the Southern Moon Pack. And now—now even that had been stolen from me.
• “Oh. You didn’t know she was dead?” Merrick sneered, his voice laced with cruel amusement as he twisted the knife deeper into my wounds.
• He scoffed, shaking his head. “This is priceless! All these years, and you didn’t even know she was dead?” His laughter exploded in sharp bursts, his body nearly doubling over with the force of it.