Blackfeather Woods That's My Lullaby

Damien closed his eyes, knowing that his mother's response would most likely be something he did not want to hear. Burke and her shared everything, the secrets of the pack and the brotherhood included, and besides, if Damien and Cicero had figured it out at merely three months of age, what would stop Meldresi, the queen of cunning, from doing it herself.

And when Meldresi's response came, Damien's reaction was more unexpected than her words.

His eyes, narrowed in disappointment, stared at Meldresi's indigo eyes, clearly full of sorrow.

"What do you mean you couldn't do anything?" he asked, voice calm, but expression clearly troubled. He wanted to understand the reson not to kill Grimnir on suspicion. He was a threat. He attacked his sister. Meldresi's only daughter.