Page 76 of The Alpha's Seer

I freeze as a figure fills the doorway, leaning against the frame as his words caress my mind.

Be brave, my love.

“You’re wolves?!” I half whisper, half scream.

My aunt grimaces and suddenly looks much older than she is. “Yes.”

I lean back on the sofa, my breath leaving my body in a whoosh. “But I’m a human!”

Calix steps forward and stares at my aunt; his hulking figure suddenly intimidating and fierce. “I didn’t sense this. I still don’t.”

“You wouldn’t. I’ve spent years keeping the wolf buried so deep I barely feel it myself. It’s the only way we survived.”

My aunt dips her head and cries, and Calix glances at me.

“I left the pack when they took my sister. We went into hiding and pretended we were normal humans. Just a normal family. We learned to get by—masking our scent with herbs, never shifting, never letting anyone close enough to notice. Wolves trust their noses; if you strip the wolf away, you can disappear among humans.”

Only now do I notice the way her hands shake over the tea she poured earlier—a tremor I’d brushed off, but maybe it was never just nerves.

My mind reels, but Calix is steady, his arms crossed as he stares at my aunt.

“Blair’s mother was taken? Who by?”

My aunt weeps, and we let her, absorbing what we know before discovering any more.

My mother was a werewolf? My aunt?!

“My dad?” I ask, and my aunt takes the tissue Calix has found for her.

“Hewashuman,” she says with a fond smile. She’d always loved my dad. “I’m sorry, Blair. I’m sorry I kept it from you; I thought…”

“I can see things,” I blurt out, and she looks at me in surprise. “I’m what they call?—”

“A Seer,” my aunt finishes softly. “Unbelievable. My mother was one, and so was yours.”

It makes sense.

I’m not just a human—I’m part werewolf!

But I haven’t got time to ponder my heritage; I need to know how I am connected to this crazy bastard that’s haunting my dreams.

“Who took Blair’s mother?” Calix demands.

“A vicious pack with few members,” my aunt explains bitterly, her eyes flashing. “We got her back, but the damage was done by then.”

“Damage?” I echo, my heart thundering in my chest.

I can’t believe what I’m hearing.

“Your mother was beautiful, the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen,” my aunt recalls fondly and without envy. “She was also a Seer.”

Fear strikes deep within my soul, and Calix shifts.

“So the Alpha took her.”

I stare at my aunt, riveted and unable to move. “What did they do to her?”

My aunt shakes her head. “I don’t know. She was gone for a few years, and when she returned, she was nothing like the sister I knew and loved. But then she met your father… and had your brother and you.”