Valentin and I reached the end of the lap. He stopped with a coy smirk and I followed, brows still furrowed. He brushed his
hair back off his face. I felt my heart stutter in my chest.
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Chapter 17
How is be so attractive?
y inner voice.
He’s literally your bitch mom’s BFF. Move on, I threw back at my
“A lady never reveals her true age,” Valentin teased.
I rolled my eyes at him. “Right so you and my mom fought the vampires?”
“We did. Start on some hamstring stretches,” he said. I followed suit and watched as he stood on the side of the track, arms across his chest. “We raised a whole army of wolves. Broke free of the vampires and managed to take a bunch of them down But they’d weakened us for so long. They were stronger than us a
and fought back valiantly. It was looking grim for us when
your mother started to glow.
“She’d unlocked the power of a True Alpha. It was something that the vampires had surpressed for years. she managed to lock the Vampire Emperor in the shadow world.
With that power,
“Wow,” I breathed. I turned around and started on a different hamstring stretch, walking back towards Valentin. “The handbooks don’t have that part.”
“Most wolves know,” he said. I frowned. He grimaced slightly. “Most wolves raised by wolves.”
“You wanna fill me in on why I didn’t get that part of my life?” I said.
Valentin grimaced again. “That’s not my story to tell. Switch to hip stretched,” he said. I followed his direction and scowled at the same time. “You can speak to your mother about this.”
“She won’t tell me.” 1 bit out.
“For a reason,” Valentin said. “There was a prophecy, foretold that eighteen years after the capture of the empire, the Dawn of the wolves would emerge, ushering forth a prosperous period of new wolves.”
“I know,” I said, swinging my leg across my body to stretch my hip. I have no idea what that has to do with me.”
Valentin set his lips in a thin line. That’s all I can tell you,” he said softly. He jutted his chin towards me. “Shoulder stretches.”
I rolled my eyes. Leave it to my mother to save all the wolves and then toss me aside. It was classic Victoria. Though I couldn’t help but linger on the thought of becoming the True Alpha. I wondered if I would ever become that? Would my power ever match that of my mother’s?
“So you asked about fated mates,” Valentin cleared his throat. It snapped me out of my thoughts. I nodded. He shifted slightly. “That’s another part of wolf history. Fated mated were suppressed by the vampires so never became powerful enough to overcome them.
