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POV: LYA

As my eyelids fluttered open, my gaze met a pristine white ceiling adorned with an intricate totem. Painted upon it was a regal figure—a pure white wolf — radiating an aura of majesty and grace.

A sharp pain came from my head, causing me to let out a controlled huff.

"You're awake?" A voice rang out in my head, "I'm Lyssa, your wolf, I'm sorry I didn't fully awaken until the moment you jumped off the waterfall, I didn't protect you."

A pair of green wolf eyes came to my mind and were staring at me apologetically.

My wolf? So, not only did I not die when I jumped off the waterfall, but I awakened my wolf!

No longer caring about the painful signals my mind was sending me, I tried to talk to Lyssa with my mind, "You don't need to feel sorry for that, if it wasn't for you, I would probably be dead already, wouldn't I?"

Lyssa's voice finally stopped sounding so sad, "Yes, our first transformation went very well."

"So... where am I now?" I asked Lyssa, after all, this did not look like my home or any of the GreyStone Pack's places.

"I don't know, my strength ran out after I swam to shore and I passed out." Lyssa's voice became a little smaller, and I could feel that she was still apologetic about it.

A man with a glass of water walked in, and when he saw my eyes open, he gave me a good-natured smile, "You're awake?"

The man had light brown hair and looked very kind, no matter what, kinder than that Miguel.

"Did you save me?" I propped myself up and sat up.

"Yes, I saw a red wolf fainting on the bank at the headwaters of the river, you know, red wolves are so special, so I saved you and took you back." The man sat on the edge of the bed and handed me the glass of water, "My name is Joseph, and I am the beta of MoonWar Pack Alpha. Here is your medicine, drink it down and then I will take you to Allora."

I obediently took the glass of water Joseph handed me and took the medicine without even asking.

Joseph looked at my crisp movements, raised an eyebrow, smiled and asked me, "Don't you doubt my words at all?"

Lyssa also questioned me in my head, "What if he poisons you?"

I wiped my mouth with my sleeve and said indifferently, "If you were going to hurt me, why did you pick me up? You could have killed me when you saw me at the river instead of bothering to heal my wounds and then doing it."

At this point, I noticed that I was not wearing the same clothes that I was wearing when I jumped off the waterfall. I was wearing a larger set of clothes with the same white wolf totem tattooed on the ceiling, with the words "MoonWar Pack" under the totem.

"You're quite a clever wolf." Noticing me staring at my clothes, Joseph smiled, "I didn't change them for you, and you can rest assured."

I nodded, "I'm good, take me to your Alpha."

By this time, whoever changed my clothes for me, I actually did not care anymore, and I had just been rejected by my own mate and sold by my adoptive parents to an older man.

The most important thing for me then was how to make myself stronger, and I must make both Kendall's family and Miguel pay.

Well, it might be a little hard to make Miguel pay, but at least I could make him regret it for rejecting me.

Joseph smiled as he stood up and led me to the door of MoonWar Pack Alpha's room.

"Go inside, Allora is waiting for you." Joseph looked at me and said, "Don't be nervous and scared, Allora is a great Alpha, just tell her where you're from and what's going on."

I looked at Joseph suspiciously.

"It doesn't seem that you lost your footing and fell into a waterfall with those cuts." Joseph shrugged his shoulders, "The river doesn't hurt people like that."

Without asking Joseph again, who was indeed a very smart man, I knocked on the door of the room and heard a muffled voice from inside, "Come in."

I pushed open the door to the room, which was dimly lit, and a chair with a high back rested behind a table, the back of which blocked Allora out so that I could only see her hand propped up on the armrest. It was a hand that looked like it was quite powerful, worthy of alpha of a wolf pack.

"My name is Lya, from the GreyStone Pack ..." I hung my head and began to recount my story.

By the time, I had finished telling all that had happened, about twenty minutes had passed, and that was after I had omitted all emotions.

"So, if I didn't take it wrong, you want to learn how to become a powerful werewolf in our MoonWar Pack, right?" Allora's hand propped up on the armrest moved a little.

"Yes." I looked up at the back of my chair, "Please, take me in."

Allora turned her chair around and faced me head-on. It was the first time I had ever been alone with an Alpha, and the powerful aura made me shrink back as I could not control myself.

"Don't be afraid, I feel like she's being friendly to us." Lyssa said in my head, "Believe it or not, she was moved to tears by your story."

What?

When I heard Lyssa's words, I looked up in disbelief and peeked at Allora, who indeed had tears in her eyes and they were a little red.

"Ma'am?" I was at a bit of a loss as to what to do, did my story really sound that bad?

Allora wiped her tears with her hand, stood up directly propped up on her chair, rushed to my side with great speed and put me in her arms, "Finally ... finally ..."

"Finally what?" I did not move and let this great woman hold me.

"Finally, I found you!" Allora took my face in her hands, "Look! Look! Look at your bright red hair, look at your green eyes, who dares to say you are not Allora's daughter?"

"Wait, what?" I was a little shocked and my words became stuttered.

I thought this woman must be crazy, otherwise why would she think I am her daughter?

Although I was indeed the child Aurora and Damon picked up, I was picked up within the premises of GreyStone Pack. GreyStone Pack and MoonWar Pack, one at upstream of the falls and another one at downstream of the falls, and if I had not jumped into the falls, I probably would not have come here in my life.

Allora's eyes were filled with tears, but the smile on her face was very genuine.

"See, here's the proof. Evidence that you are my bloodline." The voice that belonged to Allora rang in my head, "Family members can communicate using mind links, and at this moment I am doing so."

She was right, what she said was true!

I was speechless with amazement that in just half an hour, I had found the one I had never seen in eighteen years, my real mother, and she was an Alpha!