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No one spoke for who knows how long. Maybe only half a minute, but to me feels very, very long. I didn't get to see Jake and Alex's response again, my eyes were fixed on my parents who were still silent. Mum frowned slightly in understanding. Maybe because Mum used to be human so she doesn't know much about Lycan and her history with werewolves. But Dad ...

Her brown eyes stared at me in horror.

I opened my lips to defend myself but no words could come out of my mouth.

"How- What ... do you mean?" Dad's voice made my heart feel like it was being squeezed painfully.

I bit the inside of my cheek to hold back the sobs that wanted to come out again. The memory of Dad letting me ride on both of his shoulders when I was seven was playing over and over again in my head. Right now Dad was looking at me like I was a stranger to him.

But there's no turning back for me now.

"Cara, stop." Alex called me but I ignored him.

I swallowed my saliva to get rid of the sadness that was clumping in my thr