66. War

Atalanta’s pov

I couldn’t fall asleep after that, so instead I tried to find a way out. At the same time, I tried to piece together what I had heard. Even if I didn’t want to know the truth before, it was needed for me to survive this.

My mother had unknowingly slept with a werewolf. Did she fall in love like I did? Or was it just a fling? A way to escape this community and her pending marriage to my dad.

When did she realize what I was? Had she always known? Is that why she hates me?

I was born as the prey she was meant to hunt.

And General Sweets was going to make more people like me. How? Was he going to use the women here?

Or have some huntermen force themselves on the shewolves they caught?

Both options were extremely wrong for so many reasons.

They didn’t need me for that part though, so why keep me? So my great uncle could do unthinkable things to me in his bedroom instead of a laboratory, or was I still necessary for their tests?

Proof of why the general’s plan could work. No w