Chapter 4

What aren’t you telling me?” Her voice came out smaller than she wanted it to. “Kael. For the last time what aren’t you telling me?”

He didn’t answer right away, and that silence told her more than words could have. She watched him search for a way to say it that wouldn’t break something between them, and she already knew there wasn’t one.

“Your mother wasn’t an ordinary wolf,” he finally said. “She belonged to a bloodline called the Emberborn. They came from the first union between dragon and wolf, thousands of years ago. Emberborn blood carried both gifts. That…