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Chapter One
It took a long time and a chunk of my parents’ insurance money to find Minx. Since her mother wouldn’t give me any specific information, I had to hire a private investigator.
My sister Minx had no social media footprint. None at all. And so, when I saw her for the first time in the office of the Werewolf Academy, I was shocked. Her hair was red to my black. Her eyes were the same shape as mine, but her irises were brown where mine were ice blue.
If I didn’t know the truth about her lineage and mine and where those two crossed, I never would’ve believed we were sisters.
Of course, up to a few weeks ago, I believed my father shared my DNA and had never questioned our biological tether.
“Have we met?” Minx asked me, one of many letters I’d sent in her hand. There was no point in writing any more. I’d taken a chance and come down here to the academy. And a bit of a donation had gotten me late-semester acceptance. I squirmed. This was a delicate situation. I didn’t take joy in telling someone that they weren’t who they thought they were and that I was part of that equation—through no fault of my own, at least. “No. At least I don’t think we’ve ever met.” I smiled, my lips trembling a little. “There’s no need to open that. It’s from me.”
“What? Why did you mail me a letter and then show up here too?” She’d glanced up at the clock, clearly late for something. Probably her next class.
I held up my schedule. “I’m a new student. I’ve been looking for you for a long time though.”
Her strawberry-blonde eyebrows furrowed. “For me? Why?”
I sighed as my heart threatened to gallop right out of my chest. This could go very badly. “Because I think I’m your sister.”
She burst out in a fit of giggles and then schooled herself with the clearing of her throat. “I’m sorry. You are mistaken. I don’t have a sister. As in, my parents didn’t have another child after me.” Some emotion crossed her features at the mention of her parents.
There was bad blood there. She had no idea how much. Because my father and hers were the same.
And it wasn’t her daddy at home either.
Gods. I hadn’t rehearsed this part enough. “I took a DNA test through the Shifter Ancestry Department. I had it done twice, actually. We share a father, according to them.”
Her hand tightened on the strap of her backpack, and I noticed three guys standing outside the door. The tallest one pretended to be engaged in conversation with the others, but his eyes kept ticking back to Minx.
Did my sister have mates?
“Again, I’m sorry you went to all this trouble but I have a mother and a father, and they are married. You’re mistaken…I didn’t catch your name.”
“My name is Ava.”
“Ava, you have the wrong girl. Maybe contact Shifter Ancestry and tell them there’s been a mistake? Maybe they can test you again?”
I nodded. Our conversation had garnered all three of the males’ attention, and they were seconds from coming in here as though I were going to mess with Minx. She was my sister whether she believed it or not. No way I would ever hurt her, though the truth I shared might be hurtful.
But I would never bring her harm.
“You’re late for class. I should get to mine as well. Maybe I’ll see you around.” I turned, trying to hide the tears welling in my eyes. She was all I had of family in this world. She didn’t even realize how much her rejection hurt.
“Yeah. Maybe so.”
She headed out of the office but before she and who I assumed were her mates walked away, she turned and looked at me over her shoulder. There were wheels turning in her head. Somewhere, somehow, she knew I told the truth.
I foresaw a hard conversation with her parents in the future.
At least she had parents to talk to.
I only had her and myself.
Chapter Two
For a moment, I stood there, not moving, wondering what I should do next. But thanks to an older woman with readers both on her head and hanging from a chain around her neck, I quickly found out.
Dawdling in the office was a no-no.
