Chapter Eighty One

(Aurora’s POV)

“How could you do this to me, mother?, How could you hide this from me for all those years? I mourned this man. I hated Nate even if I knew he was right. How could you, mother?” I asked. We were both in tears now. I felt my life had been a lie. The man I thought was good in some ways turned out to be all bad. If I knew, maybe I would have kept my mother’s promise and laughed over his grave. Maybe I would have saved my tears because he deserved none of it.

“You were so innocent, Rora, and he loved you; he truly did. I didn’t want to paint him in a bad light, but I believed now you need to know,” she says, or rather pleaded.

The truth was that I always believed in the Raven Pack, I lived in a bubble; I had the perfect boyfriend; I had friends; I was beautiful; I had parents who loved me; I was the only child, but when I was taken back to the Blood Moon Pack, reality hit hard, and the truth was that I hadn’t even tried to get out of that bubble; I was too comfortable; I di