7.3

Hiru’s POV

It was finally my moon celebration. My parents had been planning this for a few months. Sadly, my birthday was a month ago. They didn’t want to have two parties, so we had to wait for the next full moon. Something about my tie to my animal being stronger. I didn’t care about that. I just wanted to be finally shift into the great snake that I was.

My dad, Taerin, was the king and wanted all the kinsmanships to be involved. I didn’t want to have to deal with Kataya. It had nothing to do with being a dirty, shifterless. She just gave me the creeps. My Aunt Lavender said she would come, but that meant I would have to deal with those stupid twins.

My dad called me over to his study. He sat behind the chair with his phone up to his ear. I never realized it until now that his head seemed more in shape with a cobra head. I wondered if that would happen to me. I waited patiently for him to finish his call.

When he finished, he sighed. “