Heartless: A Paranormal Shifter Romance (Hunter Moon Academy Book 3) by Simone Leigh Martin

Author:Simone Leigh Martin [Martin, Simone Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen – Vail

My dad was a void. Or to be more precise, one of my dads had been something other than a wolf, since when you added Driftwood Chance to the mix, I was the now the most fathered-up girl on the mountain. Not that I could assume my mom wasn’t the one with the cursed blood. She’d been a Marrow princess, after all. And if anyone had reason to abdicate a throne, wouldn’t it be the shifter with the famous bloodline, who wasn’t really a wolf at all?

As soon as Jasper had laid out his discovery, I went back to my room. Not because of anything he’d done. In fact, the thing that shook me the most was how considerate he’d been as he dissected my life right in front of me. He’d obviously spent a long time going through my dad’s notebooks, while I’d been trying to avoid thinking about what we’d uncovered in the cellar. And I couldn’t deny the emotion in his eyes as he’d pieced my parents’ past together. Not disgust, or the kind of calculation you might expect from a Clan Alpha, but kindness. And maybe even some sympathy for the girl whose story gets darker and more confusing with every turn of the page.

The only thing I’d taken from the table was the picture of my parents. And as soon as I’d closed my bedroom door, I went to my duffel, and took out Darkness’ letter. The paper was even more crumpled from being dragged up the mountain, but the picture he’d sent me was safely tucked inside. Alana Marrow and Parker West, surrounded by sunshine and flowers on their wedding day. Only now I could see the faint crease where the other third of the picture had been carefully removed.

So, who was my dad? Was this the public face of my mom’s marriage, and Michael Warren was her dirty little secret? Or had they been in love, the real deal, and my dad had taken her from him, even slapping her into a collar to keep them apart? Was that why Driftwood wanted me to have this version of my history? Was the man who I thought was my dad such an asshole, he’d been literally cut out of the picture?

It fit. But it didn’t. Like the pieces of the pyramid puzzle that were still scattered across the other end of the table.

“I think my dad’s a void.”

Jasper looked up from the stove. He was heating another ration pack he’d brought up from the cellar and I shuddered as I smelled mac ‘n’ cheese. I was no gourmet, but there had to be something in our supplies that didn’t taste like rehydrated feet. “It would make sense,” he told me, “except for the collar. I checked it again, and it definitely smells like your mom’s pillow.”

“Then maybe they were both voids.” I blew out a frustrated breath. “Or maybe the big secret was they were really in a three-way relationship with Parker West.

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