“The Goddess.” I shrugged. “And she didn’t tell me. She showed me.” I sat back. “She told me later about how my line came to be.” I picked at my nail bed. “When the Goddess wasfinally strong enough to leave the sky, she came down and fell in love with one descendant of the first Lycan. She became his wife, had his pups, and then he betrayed her with another Lycan. She retreated to the sky and watched over her children. The ones she created and the ones she bore.”
Chapter Fifty-Six
Thoth was silent, but my father looked like he might puke. “So you’re saying you have three powerful lines-”
“Yeah. Lycan, witch and wolf. My size, my aura, my power, all from the Goddess herself.” I shrugged because I didn’t know what else to do, then nodded.
“That actually makes sense.” Thoth finally broke his silence. “I’ve always wondered why you were so large in wolf form.”
I lifted a brow. “You’ve never seen me before.”
My dad chuckled. “Yeah, he has.” I looked at him and he shrugged. “I sent pictures.” He lifted a shoulder. “I’m proud of you, so I boasted a little about how big Nix was. Thoth didn’t believe me.”
I shook my head. “Anyway, I only brought this up because of Brandon.”
“What?” Thoth sounded confused.
“Brandon was Megan’s mate. But she rejected him in the first year of college. But even with a broken bond, he can still scent me.”
“Wait a minute…how does he not already know?” Thoth asked. “And why did you reject him?”
I looked at my dad and he nodded. “Because. My father’s line has a gift.”
“A gift?”
I nodded. “We get a chance at another life.”
“What?”
“I’ve already lived until I was twenty-four. I mated Brandon in my last life, and I was about to have his pup when Shannon convinced him I cheated. That the pup inside of me was someone else’s. So he chained me to a table and had the doctor cut our pup from me with silver. My pup died on my chest, and then I bled out. When I woke back up, it was my eighteenth birthday, the day I was going to scent him. I ran instead and my dad helped me awaken my power, and I found my second wolf. I became whole enough to shift this time around.”
“You mated Brandon and had his pup…” Thoth sounded almost breathless.
“And I refuse to make the same mistake.”
“Do you have feelings for him?”
“Yes.”
Thoth grunted. “Seriously?”
I felt my eyes harden. “He killed my pup. I hate him. I’m going to do everything I can to take everything from him and then I’m going to kill him. Slowly.”
Thoth growled low. “While I find all of this interesting, why did you tell us?”
“Because it’s a part of my plan. My dad taught me how to change my scent, but I’ve already started to change it backslowly. He’s already losing his mind a little. I’m going to shift it back more and more as we get closer to the mating ceremony.”
“Why would you do that?” My dad cut in.
“Because it throws him off. He’s already dealing with Shannon, spreading rumors about the two of them. The pack is noticing. So while Vince and Brandon deal with that bullshit, I’ll be using the diversion to hack into their system and steal all of their data. I’ll be saving the kids that they have been draining. I’ll move Rick and his family out, Alannah and Ternen too before their pup is found out.”
“Why are you moving these people?” My dad cut in again. Clearly confused.
“Alannah is an Omega, as is her mate Ternen. They just found out that they were having a pup.”
“That’s great.” My dad smiled.
“Not here. Vince created a rule. Omega’s can’t have pups without permission. To get permission, they have to sleep with a ranked wolf. If they get pregnant from their mate before that, then the ranked wolves can abuse the female until they lose the child.”
