(Kieran POV) "Tell her," Lucas said quietly, reading the direction of my thoughts with uncomfortable accuracy. "Before tomorrow night. Before you lose the choice about how she learns what you are." Tell her. Make the conscious decision to reveal truths that could destroy everything instead of letting circumstance force the revelation at the worst possible moment. The logical part of my mind recognized the wisdom in Lucas's suggestion. Catherine was intelligent, brave, already halfway to understanding what she was dealing with. Better to control the narrative than let her imagination fill in blanks that might be worse than reality. But the wolf recoiled from the idea of voluntary confession, from giving her information she could use to better evade or resist what we offered. Predators d

