Chapter 195\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orion rubbed his face and took a deep breath. \u2018Our mother came from a family of what people used to call werewolf witches. They were wolves who could also drain life force from other living things.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah\u2019s hand stopped moving on his back. I could tell this was new information for her too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe werewolf community saw them as dangerous,\u201d Orion continued. \u201cToo powerful. Too unpredictable. So they hunted them down and killed them. All\u00a0<\/p>\n
of them, or so they thought.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut someone survived,\u201d I said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur great\u2013grandmother,\u201d Orion nodded. \u201cHer mother hid her when the hunters came and told her to run. She did. She ran for years before she met our\u00a0<\/p>\n
great\u2013grandfather. He loved her despite what she was. He helped her learn to control it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d Sarah asked quietly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
F\u00a0<\/p>\n
7\u00a0<\/p>\n
2 \u5e78 *\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBy never using it when she was angry,\u201d Orion said. \u201cBy never shifting when her emotions were running high. There was a thin line between a normal shift and tapping into that power. Our great\u2013grandmother learned to stay on the safe side of that line.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I thought about all the times I\u2019d seen Athena shift when she was upset or angry. How many times had she come close to crossing that line without\u00a0<\/p>\n
knowing it?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Or was it that she wasn\u2019t that angy? Was it something Daxon had said to her?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one in our family had ever crossed that line, Orion said like he was reading my thoughts. \u201cWe thought the power had died out. That maybe the hunters had been right and it was too dangerous to exist.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018But then Athena was born,\u201d I said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orion\u2019s face crumpled. \u201cThe night she was born, the moon turned red. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be a blood moon that night, but it turned red anyway. The midwife took one look at the sky and told our mother that Athena was special. That\u2019s when Mom knew the power hadn\u2019t died. It had just been waiting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWaiting for what?\u2018 Sarah asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the right person,\u2018 Orion said. \u201cFor someone strong enough to handle it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I laughed but there was no humor in it. \u201cStrong enough? Look what it did to her. Look what it made her do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018She killed Daxon and Seraphine,\u2018 Orion said quietly. \u201cBut I feel there was a reason. Maybe she wanted to safe us. His voice came out broken\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018She almost died,\u2018 I shot back. \u201cShe drained herself so completely that she can barely breathe. How is that strong?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause she fought it,\u201d Orion said. \u201cWhen I commanded her to shift, that thing inside her fought back. But Athena was stronger. She chose to come\u00a0<\/p>\n
back to us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I wanted to believe him. I wanted to think that what happened in that cave was Athena choosing us over the power. But I\u2019d felt what that thing was like through our bond. It wasn\u2019t gone. It was just sleeping.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIs there a way to get rid of it?\u201d I asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 195\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orion was quiet for a long time. \u2018I don\u2019t know,\u201d he finally said. \u2018Mom only told me about our family history on her deathbed. She never had time to explain how to control it or how to make it go away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018So what do we do? My voice cracked. \u201cKeep her sedated forever?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Dr. Graze is coming,\u201d Sarah said. \u2018Maybe he\u2019ll have ideas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
70\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018He\u2019s a pack physician,\u201d I said. \u201cNot a specialist in ancient werewolf magic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we\u2019ll find someone who is, Orion said firmly. \u201cWe\u2019ll figure this out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I stood up and started pacing. I couldn\u2019t sit still anymore. \u201cWhat if we can\u2019t? What if there is no way to get rid of it?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has to be,\u201d Sarah said. \u201cThere has to be something.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t see her back there,\u201d I said. I stopped pacing and looked at both of them. \u201cYou didn\u2019t feel what I felt through our bond. That thing wasn\u2019t just\u00a0<\/p>\n
using her power. It was feeding on her. It was eating her from the inside out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
*I did too. Incase you\u2019ve forgotten I can feel her too. I\u2019m not just her Alpha, I\u2019m her brother\u201d he said in a angry tone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was right. I could feel him hurting, just that he always have a way to hide how\u2019s he\u2019s really feeling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Always in control of his emotions, but I can\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I\u2019m angry you\u2019ll know. I don\u2019t know how to be like him, especially when it has to do with Athena.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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