Noah I think for a few seconds my brain just froze. All I could do was blankly stare at the woman in front of me. Mechanically, like a bloody robot, I opened and closed my mouth to find some response to this insane, most unexpected and shocking revelation of my life and yet all I could find was...nothing. "Speak something!" Noel was the first to recover. "Or I will." "What did you say?" I finally exclaimed and, to be honest, a few heads did turn in our direction. "Please calm down, alpha," Carissa whispered. "You do realize this isn't something I could handle calmly, right?" I hissed. "You...are Rose's mother? How? When...And you knew all along yet you said nothing?" "I will explain everything," she answered, looking kind of scared. "But not today, not now. Now is not the time.