LILY POV
I threw Elder Iris's book across the room with such force that it hit the wall and pages scattered everywhere.
"It's not true!" I screamed at the empty air. "She's lying! She has to be lying!"
But even as the words left my mouth, I knew they weren't true. Elder Iris had never lied to me. Not once in all the years I'd known her. And now she was gone, and her final words were ringing in my head like a nightmare I couldn't wake up from.
It's her son.
The void entity that had been terrorizing our pack, the thing that had tried to transform Luna, the being I thought was my lost brother - it was my child. A child I didn't even know I had.
I sank to my knees among the scattered pages, and that's when it hit me.
Pain. Raw, crushing, intense pain that felt like someone had reached into my chest and squeezed my heart until it burst.
