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In a way, Ingram was a cornerstone of Wylla’s foundation. He’d been with her since birth, and her foundation became irreversibly unstable the day he was lost to her. She wished she could say the same about Lycaon, but she simply didn’t know him like she knew Ingram. Ingram was an extension of herself. She believed she knew all there was to know about her brother.

Which was why Wylla was certain, when Mahler finished speaking, that it was a case of mistaken identity. She shook her head fervently. Not possible, she countered, despite the uncertain flutter of her heart. What if he was alive? Ingram was killed by a bear in Swiftcurrent Creek, and even if he wasn’t, he would never lay with a Drageda dog.

Nor, Wylla believed, would any Dragedan choose him to sire her pups. It simply could not be so. A different Ingram, perhaps … She strengthened her notion by thinking of Praimfaya, twisting her lips at the thought. Her brother would never raise such an entitled, arrogant daughter.

Yet, in some ways, Praimfaya and Wylla were very alike, down to that very arrogance. The latter simply chose to gloss over her own faults, always.