CHAPTER TWENTY
BOMBSHELL
AMBER’S POV
The house across the street doesn’t beckon me the way it used to. It stands there, quiet and cold, no longer feeling like home. The warmth it once radiated is long gone. The laughter, the comfort, the certainty, it all seemed to have evaporated the moment I stepped back into my own house yesterday.
Now, my feet drag. My steps are hesitant. I don’t know what she’ll say when I walk in. I don’t know how to face her without feeling betrayed all over again. But most of all, I’m scared of finding out about myself. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out there is a story behind me being a primordial wolf.
“What's up with you today, Amber?” Jack’s voice cuts through the fog in my head as he catches up beside me. “First you avoid me all through the Ortega ba
